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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"torvalds@linux-foundation.org" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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	"luto@amacapital.net" <luto@amacapital.net>,
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	"catalin.marinas@arm.com" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	"james.morse@arm.com" <james.morse@arm.com>,
	"valentin.schneider@arm.com" <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
	"brgerst@gmail.com" <brgerst@gmail.com>,
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	"dvlasenk@redhat.com" <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"dvyukov@google.com" <dvyukov@google.com>,
	"rostedt@goodmis.org" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 02/25] tracing: Improve "if" macro code generation
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:18:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f918ecb0b6bf43f3bf0f526084d8467b@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190318155140.058627431@infradead.org>

From: > Peter Zijlstra
> Sent: 18 March 2019 15:39
> 
> With CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES, the "if" macro converts the
> conditional to an array index.  This can cause GCC to create horrible
> code.  When there are nested ifs, the generated code uses register
> values to encode branching decisions.
> 
> Make it easier for GCC to optimize by keeping the conditional as a
> conditional rather than converting it to an integer.  This shrinks the
> generated code quite a bit, and also makes the code sane enough for
> objtool to understand.
...
>  include/linux/compiler.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_
>  				.line = __LINE__,			\
>  			};						\
>  		______r = !!(cond);					\

	Is that (or maybe just the !!) needed any more??

> -		______f.miss_hit[______r]++;					\
> +		______r ? ______f.miss_hit[1]++ : ______f.miss_hit[0]++;\
>  		______r;						\
>  	}))
>  #endif /* CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES */
> 

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-20 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-18 15:38 [PATCH 00/25] objtool: UACCESS validation v4 Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 01/25] x86: Make SMAP 64-bit only Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 16:58   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-18 17:36     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 17:51       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 18:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-21 17:12           ` hpa
2019-03-21 17:25           ` Denys Vlasenko
2019-03-21 18:18             ` hpa
2019-03-21 21:03               ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-21 18:21             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-19 11:16   ` [PATCH 01/25] sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 02/25] tracing: Improve "if" macro code generation Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 17:41   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-18 23:37   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-19 10:11     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-20 11:18   ` David Laight [this message]
2019-03-20 17:26     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-20 17:37       ` David Laight
2019-03-20 17:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-20 18:18       ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-09 13:00       ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-09 16:51         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-09 18:29           ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-09 18:45             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-05-09 18:47               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-05-09 18:48                 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-05-09 18:57                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-05-09 19:06               ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-09 19:28                 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-09 19:44                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 03/25] x86/ia32: Fix ia32_restore_sigcontext AC leak Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 04/25] i915,uaccess: Fix redundant CLAC Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 05/25] x86/uaccess: Move copy_user_handle_tail into asm Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 06/25] x86/uaccess: Fix up the fixup Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 07/25] x86/nospec,objtool: Introduce ANNOTATE_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 08/25] x86/uaccess,xen: Suppress SMAP warnings Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 09/25] x86/uaccess: Always inline user_access_begin() Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 10/25] x86/uaccess,signal: Fix AC=1 bloat Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 11/25] x86/uaccess: Introduce user_access_{save,restore}() Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 12/25] x86/smap: Ditch __stringify() Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 13/25] x86/uaccess,kasan: Fix KASAN vs SMAP Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 14/25] x86/uaccess,ubsan: Fix UBSAN " Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 15/25] x86/uaccess,ftrace: Fix ftrace_likely_update() " Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 16/25] x86/uaccess,kcov: Disable stack protector Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 17/25] objtool: Set insn->func for alternatives Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 18/25] objtool: Handle function aliases Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:38 ` [PATCH 19/25] objtool: Rewrite add_ignores() Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:39 ` [PATCH 20/25] objtool: Add --backtrace support Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:39 ` [PATCH 21/25] objtool: Rewrite alt->skip_orig Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:39 ` [PATCH 22/25] objtool: Fix sibling call detection Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:39 ` [PATCH 23/25] objtool: Add UACCESS validation Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 23:51   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-05-07 11:52   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:39 ` [PATCH 24/25] objtool: uaccess PUSHF/POPF support Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 15:39 ` [PATCH 25/25] objtool: Add Direction Flag validation Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 23:57 ` [PATCH 00/25] objtool: UACCESS validation v4 Josh Poimboeuf
2019-03-19 11:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-19 11:17 ` [PATCH 26/25] sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch Peter Zijlstra

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