// Mark stack as non-executable #if defined(__linux__) && defined(__ELF__) .section .note.GNU-stack, "", @progbits #endif /* __morestack This function is normally used to implement stack growth using the mechanism devised by Ian Lance Taylor for gccgo, described here: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SplitStacks Each Rust function contains an LLVM-generated prologue that compares the stack space required for the current function to the space remaining in the current stack segment, maintained in a platform-specific TLS slot. The stack limit is strategically maintained by the Rust runtime so that it is always in place whenever a Rust function is running. In Rust, however, we currently do not use __morestack for stack growth purposes. Rather each task has one large stack segment. When this __morestack function is run, we interpret this as a "stack overflow" event rather than an event requiring an allocation of a new stack. In the early days, this implementation did indeed have all of the fiddly bits in order to manage split stacks in the sense of always growing stacks. For posterity, the implementation can be found at commit c8e77d5586aed50821e0b9361b2e24c96ade816c if we ever need to refer back to it. -- The __morestack calling convention -- For reasons of efficiency the __morestack calling convention is bizarre. The calling function does not attempt to align the stack for the call, and on x86_64 the arguments to __morestack are passed in scratch registers in order to preserve the original function's arguments. Once __morestack has switched to the new stack, instead of returning, it then calls into the original function, resuming execution at the instruction following the call to __morestack. Thus, when the original function returns it actually returns to __morestack, which then deallocates the stack and returns again to the original function's caller. -- Unwinding -- All this trickery causes hell when it comes time for the unwinder to navigate it's way through this function. What will happen is the original function will be unwound first without any special effort, then the unwinder encounters the __morestack frame, which is sitting just above a tiny fraction of a frame (containing just a return pointer and, on 32-bit, the arguments to __morestack). We deal with this by claiming that little bit of stack is actually part of the __morestack frame, encoded as DWARF call frame instructions (CFI) by .cfi assembler pseudo-ops. One final complication (that took me a week to figure out) is that OS X 10.6+ uses its own 'compact unwind info', an undocumented format generated by the linker from the DWARF CFI. This compact unwind info doesn't correctly capture the nuance of the __morestack frame, so we need to prevent the linker from attempting to convert its DWARF unwind information. */ .text #if defined(__APPLE__) #define MORESTACK ___morestack #define EXHAUSTED _rust_stack_exhausted #else #if defined(__linux__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) #define MORESTACK __morestack #define EXHAUSTED rust_stack_exhausted #else #define MORESTACK ___morestack #define EXHAUSTED _rust_stack_exhausted #endif #endif .globl MORESTACK .globl EXHAUSTED // FIXME: What about __WIN32__? #if defined(__linux__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) .hidden MORESTACK #else #if defined(__APPLE__) .private_extern MORESTACK #endif #endif #ifdef __ELF__ .type MORESTACK,@function #endif MORESTACK: .cfi_startproc // This base pointer setup differs from most in that we are // telling the unwinder to consider the Canonical Frame // Address (CFA) for this frame to be the value of the stack // pointer prior to entry to the original function, whereas // the CFA would typically be the value of the stack // pointer prior to entry to this function. This will allow // the unwinder to understand how to skip the tiny partial // frame that the original function created by calling // __morestack. // In practical terms, our CFA is 12 bytes greater than it // would normally be, accounting for the two arguments to // __morestack, and an extra return address. // FIXME(#9854) these cfi directives don't work on windows. pushl %ebp #if defined(__APPLE__) // The pattern of the return address being saved twice to the same location // tells the OS X linker that it should not attempt to convert the DWARF // unwind information to the compact format. .cfi_offset %eip, -4 .cfi_offset %eip, -4 #endif // The CFA is 20 bytes above the register that it is // associated with for this frame (which will be %ebp) .cfi_def_cfa_offset 20 // %ebp is -20 bytes from the CFA .cfi_offset %ebp, -20 movl %esp, %ebp // Calculate the CFA as an offset from %ebp .cfi_def_cfa_register %ebp // re-align the stack subl $12,%esp calll EXHAUSTED // the exhaustion function guarantees that it can't return .cfi_endproc