Bug 447132

The assembly in question looks like:

    movdqa  %xmm0, -200(%ebp)
    movl    p5s_lock@GOTOFF(%ebx), %eax
    movl    %eax, (%esp)
    call    PR_Unlock@PLT
    movl    -28(%ebp), %esi
    movdqa  -200(%ebp), %xmm0

It looks like the compiler is trying to preserve the value of %xmm0 across
function calls. The offset used by all the examples of this is -200, which is
not 16-byte aligned.

I should also note that I am running x86 F9.

Then likely firefox is buggy.  -200(%ebp) must be 16-byte aligned.  The ABI
says that %esp should be 16-byte aligned right before the call instruction is
executed (i.e. first argument passed on the stack is 16-byte aligned).
But the call instruction pushes 4 bytes (the return address) and in the function
prologue:
    pushl %ebp
    movl %esp, %ebp
another 4 bytes are pushed.  So, for functions that use frame pointer %ebp
is supposed to satisfy ((%ebp + 8) & 15) == 0.  Therefore, %ebp - 200 is also
16-byte aligned.  AFAIK Firefox contains bridges written in assembly, so that's
most likely the place which doesn't honor the ABI and misaligns the stack.  To
my knowledge all similar issues on the glibc side (e.g. in clone/pthread_create,
or makecontext, have been fixed quite some time ago).
Should be fairly easy to find out, run it in the debugger, see where the
misaligned access is done, and go up through the backtrace, checking whether the
stack pointer is aligned properly in each frame, in some lower frames it will be
most likely misaligned, in start_thread or main it should be aligned properly.

Until that is fixed in firefox, you just can't build firefox with the vectorizer
on (enabled at -O3 plus CPU selection for SSE/SSE2 support).  OT, -O3 is really
meant to be used for performance critical code, if you build a huge app like
firefox with -O3, you'll see most likely performance degradation due to much
increased cache footprint.

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