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From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:55:21 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <96c6172d619c51acc5c1c4884b80785c59af4102.1602949927.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> (raw)

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


             reply	other threads:[~2020-10-17 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-17 15:55 Christophe Leroy [this message]
2020-10-19  4:55 ` [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision Joel Stanley
2020-10-19  5:50   ` Christophe Leroy
2020-10-19  8:32     ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-10-19  8:54       ` Christophe Leroy
2020-10-19 17:55         ` Segher Boessenkool

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