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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce %rip-relative addressing to PER_CPU_VAR macro
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:53:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3af8dcec-66ec-4bd4-b7bf-4bc6f5f3c70f@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231012201743.292149-1-ubizjak@gmail.com>

On 10/12/23 13:12, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> The last patch introduces (%rip) suffix and uses it for x86_64 target,
> resulting in a small code size decrease: text data bss dec hex filename
> 25510677 4386685 808388 30705750 1d48856 vmlinux-new.o 25510629 4386685
> 808388 30705702 1d48826 vmlinux-old.o

I feel like I'm missing some of the motivation here.

50 bytes is great and all, but it isn't without the cost of changing
some rules and introducing potential PER_CPU_ARG() vs. PER_CPU_VAR()
confusion.

Are there some other side benefits?  What else does this enable?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-12 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-12 20:12 Uros Bizjak
2023-10-12 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/percpu: Introduce PER_CPU_ARG and use it in cmpxchg{8,16}b_emu.S Uros Bizjak
2023-10-12 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] x86/percpu: Correct PER_CPU_VAR usage to include symbol and its addend Uros Bizjak
2023-10-12 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] x86/percpu, xen: " Uros Bizjak
2023-10-12 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] x86/percpu: Introduce %rip-relative addressing to PER_CPU_VAR macro Uros Bizjak
2023-10-12 20:53 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2023-10-12 20:59   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] " Uros Bizjak
2023-10-12 21:08     ` H. Peter Anvin
2023-10-12 21:17       ` Uros Bizjak
2023-10-12 21:21         ` H. Peter Anvin
2023-10-12 22:44           ` Uros Bizjak

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