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* [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision
@ 2020-10-17 15:55 Christophe Leroy
  2020-10-19  4:55 ` Joel Stanley
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christophe Leroy @ 2020-10-17 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnd Bergmann, Masahiro Yamada, Andrew Morton
  Cc: linux-kernel, linuxppc-dev, linux-arch

When building mpc885_ads_defconfig with gcc 10.1,
the function get_order() appears 50 times in vmlinux:

[linux]# ppc-linux-objdump -x vmlinux | grep get_order | wc -l
50

[linux]# size vmlinux
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
3842620	 675624	 135160	4653404	 47015c	vmlinux

In the old days, marking a function 'static inline' was forcing
GCC to inline, but since commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly") GCC may decide to not inline
a function.

It looks like GCC 10 is taking poor decisions on this.

get_order() compiles into the following tiny function,
occupying 20 bytes of text.

0000007c <get_order>:
  7c:   38 63 ff ff     addi    r3,r3,-1
  80:   54 63 a3 3e     rlwinm  r3,r3,20,12,31
  84:   7c 63 00 34     cntlzw  r3,r3
  88:   20 63 00 20     subfic  r3,r3,32
  8c:   4e 80 00 20     blr

By forcing get_order() to be __always_inline, the size of text is
reduced by 1940 bytes, that is almost twice the space occupied by
50 times get_order()

[linux-powerpc]# size vmlinux
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
3840680	 675588	 135176	4651444	 46f9b4	vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
---
 include/asm-generic/getorder.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/getorder.h b/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
index e9f20b813a69..f2979e3a96b6 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
  *
  * The result is undefined if the size is 0.
  */
-static inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size)
+static __always_inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size)
 {
 	if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
 		if (!size)
-- 
2.25.0


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* Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision
  2020-10-17 15:55 [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision Christophe Leroy
@ 2020-10-19  4:55 ` Joel Stanley
  2020-10-19  5:50   ` Christophe Leroy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Joel Stanley @ 2020-10-19  4:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christophe Leroy, Segher Boessenkool
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Masahiro Yamada, Andrew Morton, linux-arch,
	linuxppc-dev, Linux Kernel Mailing List

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 15:55, Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
>
> When building mpc885_ads_defconfig with gcc 10.1,
> the function get_order() appears 50 times in vmlinux:
>
> [linux]# ppc-linux-objdump -x vmlinux | grep get_order | wc -l
> 50
>
> [linux]# size vmlinux
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 3842620  675624  135160 4653404  47015c vmlinux
>
> In the old days, marking a function 'static inline' was forcing
> GCC to inline, but since commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable
> CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly") GCC may decide to not inline
> a function.
>
> It looks like GCC 10 is taking poor decisions on this.
>
> get_order() compiles into the following tiny function,
> occupying 20 bytes of text.
>
> 0000007c <get_order>:
>   7c:   38 63 ff ff     addi    r3,r3,-1
>   80:   54 63 a3 3e     rlwinm  r3,r3,20,12,31
>   84:   7c 63 00 34     cntlzw  r3,r3
>   88:   20 63 00 20     subfic  r3,r3,32
>   8c:   4e 80 00 20     blr
>
> By forcing get_order() to be __always_inline, the size of text is
> reduced by 1940 bytes, that is almost twice the space occupied by
> 50 times get_order()
>
> [linux-powerpc]# size vmlinux
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 3840680  675588  135176 4651444  46f9b4 vmlinux

I see similar results with GCC 10.2 building for arm32. There are 143
instances of get_order with aspeed_g5_defconfig.

Before:
 9071838 2630138  186468 11888444         b5673c vmlinux
After:
 9069886 2630126  186468 11886480         b55f90 vmlinux

1952 bytes smaller with your patch applied. Did you raise this with
anyone from GCC?

Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>



> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> ---
>  include/asm-generic/getorder.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/getorder.h b/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
> index e9f20b813a69..f2979e3a96b6 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>   *
>   * The result is undefined if the size is 0.
>   */
> -static inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size)
> +static __always_inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size)
>  {
>         if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
>                 if (!size)
> --
> 2.25.0
>

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* Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision
  2020-10-19  4:55 ` Joel Stanley
@ 2020-10-19  5:50   ` Christophe Leroy
  2020-10-19  8:32     ` Segher Boessenkool
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christophe Leroy @ 2020-10-19  5:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joel Stanley, Segher Boessenkool
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Masahiro Yamada, Andrew Morton, linux-arch,
	linuxppc-dev, Linux Kernel Mailing List



Le 19/10/2020 à 06:55, Joel Stanley a écrit :
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 15:55, Christophe Leroy
> <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
>>
>> When building mpc885_ads_defconfig with gcc 10.1,
>> the function get_order() appears 50 times in vmlinux:
>>
>> [linux]# ppc-linux-objdump -x vmlinux | grep get_order | wc -l
>> 50
>>
>> [linux]# size vmlinux
>>     text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>> 3842620  675624  135160 4653404  47015c vmlinux
>>
>> In the old days, marking a function 'static inline' was forcing
>> GCC to inline, but since commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable
>> CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly") GCC may decide to not inline
>> a function.
>>
>> It looks like GCC 10 is taking poor decisions on this.
>>
>> get_order() compiles into the following tiny function,
>> occupying 20 bytes of text.
>>
>> 0000007c <get_order>:
>>    7c:   38 63 ff ff     addi    r3,r3,-1
>>    80:   54 63 a3 3e     rlwinm  r3,r3,20,12,31
>>    84:   7c 63 00 34     cntlzw  r3,r3
>>    88:   20 63 00 20     subfic  r3,r3,32
>>    8c:   4e 80 00 20     blr
>>
>> By forcing get_order() to be __always_inline, the size of text is
>> reduced by 1940 bytes, that is almost twice the space occupied by
>> 50 times get_order()
>>
>> [linux-powerpc]# size vmlinux
>>     text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>> 3840680  675588  135176 4651444  46f9b4 vmlinux
> 
> I see similar results with GCC 10.2 building for arm32. There are 143
> instances of get_order with aspeed_g5_defconfig.
> 
> Before:
>   9071838 2630138  186468 11888444         b5673c vmlinux
> After:
>   9069886 2630126  186468 11886480         b55f90 vmlinux
> 
> 1952 bytes smaller with your patch applied. Did you raise this with
> anyone from GCC?

Yes I did, see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97445

For the time being, it's at a standstill.

Christophe

> 
> Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
> 
> 
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
>> ---
>>   include/asm-generic/getorder.h | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/getorder.h b/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
>> index e9f20b813a69..f2979e3a96b6 100644
>> --- a/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
>> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>>    *
>>    * The result is undefined if the size is 0.
>>    */
>> -static inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size)
>> +static __always_inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size)
>>   {
>>          if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
>>                  if (!size)
>> --
>> 2.25.0
>>

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* Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision
  2020-10-19  5:50   ` Christophe Leroy
@ 2020-10-19  8:32     ` Segher Boessenkool
  2020-10-19  8:54       ` Christophe Leroy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Segher Boessenkool @ 2020-10-19  8:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christophe Leroy
  Cc: Joel Stanley, Arnd Bergmann, Masahiro Yamada, Andrew Morton,
	linux-arch, linuxppc-dev, Linux Kernel Mailing List

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 07:50:41AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 19/10/2020 à 06:55, Joel Stanley a écrit :
> >>In the old days, marking a function 'static inline' was forcing
> >>GCC to inline, but since commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable
> >>CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly") GCC may decide to not inline
> >>a function.
> >>
> >>It looks like GCC 10 is taking poor decisions on this.

> >1952 bytes smaller with your patch applied. Did you raise this with
> >anyone from GCC?
> 
> Yes I did, see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97445
> 
> For the time being, it's at a standstill.

The kernel should just use __always_inline if that is what it *wants*;
that is true here most likely.  GCC could perhaps improve its heuristics
so that it no longer thinks these functions are often too big for
inlining (they *are* pretty big, but not after basic optimisations with
constant integer arguments).


Segher

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* Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision
  2020-10-19  8:32     ` Segher Boessenkool
@ 2020-10-19  8:54       ` Christophe Leroy
  2020-10-19 17:55         ` Segher Boessenkool
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christophe Leroy @ 2020-10-19  8:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Segher Boessenkool
  Cc: Joel Stanley, Arnd Bergmann, Masahiro Yamada, Andrew Morton,
	linux-arch, linuxppc-dev, Linux Kernel Mailing List



Le 19/10/2020 à 10:32, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 07:50:41AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Le 19/10/2020 à 06:55, Joel Stanley a écrit :
>>>> In the old days, marking a function 'static inline' was forcing
>>>> GCC to inline, but since commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable
>>>> CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly") GCC may decide to not inline
>>>> a function.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like GCC 10 is taking poor decisions on this.
> 
>>> 1952 bytes smaller with your patch applied. Did you raise this with
>>> anyone from GCC?
>>
>> Yes I did, see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97445
>>
>> For the time being, it's at a standstill.
> 
> The kernel should just use __always_inline if that is what it *wants*;
> that is true here most likely.  GCC could perhaps improve its heuristics
> so that it no longer thinks these functions are often too big for
> inlining (they *are* pretty big, but not after basic optimisations with
> constant integer arguments).
> 

Yes I guess __always_inline is to be added on functions like this defined in headers for exactly 
that, and that's the purpose of this patch.

However I find it odd that get_order() is outlined by GCC even in some object files that don't use 
it at all, for instance in fs/pipe.o

Christophe

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* Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision
  2020-10-19  8:54       ` Christophe Leroy
@ 2020-10-19 17:55         ` Segher Boessenkool
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Segher Boessenkool @ 2020-10-19 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christophe Leroy
  Cc: Joel Stanley, Arnd Bergmann, Masahiro Yamada, Andrew Morton,
	linux-arch, linuxppc-dev, Linux Kernel Mailing List

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:54:40AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 19/10/2020 à 10:32, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> >The kernel should just use __always_inline if that is what it *wants*;
> >that is true here most likely.  GCC could perhaps improve its heuristics
> >so that it no longer thinks these functions are often too big for
> >inlining (they *are* pretty big, but not after basic optimisations with
> >constant integer arguments).
> 
> Yes I guess __always_inline is to be added on functions like this defined 
> in headers for exactly that, and that's the purpose of this patch.
> 
> However I find it odd that get_order() is outlined by GCC even in some 
> object files that don't use it at all, for instance in fs/pipe.o

It is (arguably) too big too always inline if you do not consider that
__builtin_constant_p will remove half of the function one way or
another.  Not sure if that is what happens here, but now we have a PR
(thanks!) and we will find out.


Segher

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