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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/4] -ffreestanding/-fno-builtin-* patches
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:20:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad72b37c132e41f6a74766c27a27d7f6@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOdnHZfVz8grK-SD6jTT1ggQNQ-RRduRdAG0nShqeitpgpg@mail.gmail.com>

> For more context for folks at home eating popcorn and enjoying the
> show: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/876#issuecomment-613049480.
> And that was specifically with KASAN enabled and doesn't appear to be
> common behavior in clang otherwise (higher threshold). Why the
> heuristics change for when it seems to be more profitable to roll
> assignment of contiguous members of the same struct to the same value
> into a memset, and 2 longs seems to be the threshold for KASAN, I
> don't know.  But I agree that should be fixed on the compiler side,
> which is why I haven't been pushing the kernel workaround.

Given x86 has is a simple 3-instruction loop for memset
that will do 1 write/clock (the max on current cpu) I
doubt it is ever worth not inlining memset().
The only real special case is lengths < 8.

For KASAN I wonder if something is stopping it inlining memset()?
So what usually happens is the two stores get converted to memset()
and then the memset() gets inlined back to two stores?

OTOH all this faffing for memset and memcpy is probably a
waste of time.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-22 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-17 22:02 [PATCH 0/4] -ffreestanding/-fno-builtin-* patches Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-17 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] Makefile: add -fno-builtin-stpcpy Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-17 22:31   ` H. Peter Anvin
2020-08-17 23:36     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:21     ` Kees Cook
2020-08-18  7:10   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-08-18  7:25     ` Greg KH
2020-08-18  7:29       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-08-18  7:34         ` Greg KH
2020-08-18 19:23   ` Kees Cook
2020-08-17 22:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] Revert "lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp" Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18  5:44   ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-08-18 18:00     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:24       ` Kees Cook
2020-08-17 22:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86/boot: use -fno-builtin-bcmp Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:24   ` Kees Cook
2020-08-17 22:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: don't build CONFIG_X86_32 as -ffreestanding Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:24   ` Kees Cook
2021-01-07  0:27   ` Fangrui Song
2020-08-17 22:44 ` [PATCH 0/4] -ffreestanding/-fno-builtin-* patches H. Peter Anvin
2020-08-18 17:56   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:02     ` H. Peter Anvin
2020-08-18 19:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-18 19:25         ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 19:58           ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-19 12:19             ` Clement Courbet
2020-08-18 20:24         ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-18 20:27           ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 20:58             ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 21:41               ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-18 21:51                 ` Dávid Bolvanský
2020-08-18 21:59                 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 22:05                   ` Dávid Bolvanský
2020-08-18 23:22                     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-20 14:56                 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-08-20 17:56                   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-20 18:05                     ` Dávid Bolvanský
2020-08-20 23:33                     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-21 17:29                       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 17:54                         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-21 18:02                           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-21 19:14                             ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 19:23                               ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-21 19:57                           ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 20:03                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-08-21 21:39                             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-22  0:12                               ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-22 12:20                                 ` David Laight [this message]
2020-08-21  6:45                     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-08-24 15:57                 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-08-24 17:34                   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-25  7:10                     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-25  7:31                       ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-25 12:28                       ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-08-25 14:02                         ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-26 13:28                           ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-08-18 21:53               ` David Laight
2020-08-20 22:41               ` H. Peter Anvin
2020-08-20 23:17                 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-18 19:35       ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 22:25 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-18 22:59   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-18 23:51     ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-19  0:20     ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-19  8:26   ` David Laight

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