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[ARM] add common parts for PACBTI-M support in the backend
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Authored by stuij on Oct 25 2021, 3:18 AM.

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Summary

This patch encapsulates decision logic about when and how to generate
PAC/BTI related code. It's a part shared by PAC-RET, BTI placement,
build attribute emission, etc, so it make sense committing it
separately in order to unblock the aforementioned parts, which can
proceed concurrently.

This patch adds a few member functions to ARMFunctionInfo, which are currently
unused, therefore there is no testing for them at the moment. This code is
tested in follow-up PAC/BTI code gen patches.

This patch is part of a series that adds support for the PACBTI-M extension of
the Armv8.1-M architecture, as detailed here:

https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processors-blog/posts/armv8-1-m-pointer-authentication-and-branch-target-identification-extension

The PACBTI-M specification can be found in the Armv8-M Architecture Reference
Manual:

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0553/latest

The following people contributed to this patch:

  • Momchil Velikov
  • Ties Stuij

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Event Timeline

stuij created this revision.Oct 25 2021, 3:18 AM
stuij requested review of this revision.Oct 25 2021, 3:18 AM
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ostannard added inline comments.
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMMachineFunctionInfo.cpp
16

This could do with a comment explaining the meaning of the two return values.

77

It would be better to split the BTI stuff out into a separate function too, this early return will make adding anything else to this constructor harder.

stuij updated this revision to Diff 384725.Nov 4 2021, 6:01 AM

addressed review comments: added a comment and split BTI code out of ARMFunctionInfo

stuij marked 2 inline comments as done.Nov 4 2021, 6:02 AM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Nov 16 2021, 12:24 AM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.