Manually preserve rbx across cpuid instruction #851
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This fixes an issue observed when using __cpuid and __cpuid_count with
Address Sanitizer enabled: the generated code uses the rbx register to
access ASAN tracking information without reloading it after cpuid,
resulting in a segfault since the rbx register is overwritten by cpuid
(https://crbug.com/1072045).
This seems like a compiler backend bug, and indeed there is a
long-standing LLVM bug report about a very similar issue:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17907
To work around this issue, we can manually preserve the rbx register
contents in the inline assembly. This is the approach taken by LLVM's
own host cpuid detection code (lib/Host/Support.cpp). The original rbx
value is stashed in rsi, which is then swapped with rbx to restore the
original value as well as keep the output ebx value from the CPUID
instruction to be used as an output of the inline assembly.
The rbx clobber is also removed; this seems ineffective, and it
conflicts with the ebx output of the inline assembly (ebx is a
subregister of rbx): "Note that clobbering named registers that are also
present in output constraints is not legal."
(https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#clobber-constraints)