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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>,
	"Nick Desaulniers" <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	"Jian Cai" <jiancai@google.com>,
	"Fāng-ruì Sòng" <maskray@google.com>,
	"Luis Lozano" <llozano@google.com>,
	"Manoj Gupta" <manojgupta@google.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>,
	"Peter Collingbourne" <pcc@google.com>,
	"James Morse" <james.morse@arm.com>,
	"Borislav Petkov" <bp@suse.de>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"Masahiro Yamada" <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
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	x86@kernel.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
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	"Michal Marek" <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 13/36] vmlinux.lds.h: add PGO and AutoFDO input sections
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:05:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200803190506.GE1299820@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200801035128.GB2800311@rani.riverdale.lan>

> However, the history of their being together comes from
> 
>   9bebe9e5b0f3 ("kbuild: Fix .text.unlikely placement")
> 
> which seems to indicate there was some problem with having them separated out,
> although I don't quite understand what the issue was from the commit message.

Separating it out is less efficient. Gives worse packing for the hot part
if they are not aligned to 64byte boundaries, which they are usually not. 

It also improves packing of the cold part, but that probably doesn't matter.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200731230820.1742553-1-keescook@chromium.org>
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 13/36] vmlinux.lds.h: add PGO and AutoFDO input sections Kees Cook
2020-08-01  3:51   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-01  6:18     ` Kees Cook
2020-08-01 17:27       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-03 19:05     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2020-08-03 20:15       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-04  1:19         ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2020-08-04  4:45         ` Andi Kleen
2020-08-04  5:32           ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2020-08-04 16:06           ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 19:18             ` Kees Cook
2020-08-06  1:24   ` Sasha Levin
2020-08-06  1:28     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-19 23:56   ` Sasha Levin

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