Re: Surprising code generated for vdso_read_begin()

From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
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	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: Surprising code generated for vdso_read_begin()
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 07:08:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200219130808.GU22482@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0SfCwP04CJPThCuDmngGhwtejN8Px_UQpSwi=s_ww=bw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:52:16AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:45 AM Christophe Leroy
> <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> wrote:
> > Le 16/02/2020 à 19:10, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 12:33 PM Segher Boessenkool
> > > <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 07:45:44AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > >>> Le 09/01/2020 à 21:07, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> > >>>> It looks like the compiler did loop peeling.  What GCC version is this?
> > >>>> Please try current trunk (to become GCC 10), or at least GCC 9?
> > >>>
> > >>> It is with GCC 5.5
> > >>>
> > >>> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ doesn't have more
> > >>> recent than 8.1
> > >>
> > >> Arnd, can you update the tools?  We are at 8.3 and 9.2 now :-)  Or is
> > >> this hard and/or painful to do?
> > >
> > > To follow up on this older thread, I have now uploaded 6.5, 7.5, 8.3 and 9.2
> > > binaries, as well as a recent 10.0 snapshot.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks Arnd,
> >
> > I have built the VDSO with 9.2, I get less performant result than with
> > 8.2 (same performance as with 5.5).
> >
> > After a quick look, I see:
> > - Irrelevant NOPs to align loops and stuff, allthough -mpcu=860 should
> > avoid that.
> > - A stack frame is set for saving r31 in __c_kernel_clock_gettime. GCC
> > 8.1 don't need that, all VDSO functions are frameless with 8.1
> 
> If you think it should be fixed in gcc, maybe try to reproduce it in
> https://godbolt.org/

(Feel free to skip this step; and don't put links to godbolt (or anything
else external) in our bugzilla, please; such links go stale before you
know it.)

> and open a gcc bug against that.

Yes please :-)

> Also, please try the gcc-10 snapshot, which has the highest chance
> of getting fixes if it shows the same issue (or worse).

If it is a regression, chances are it will be backported.  (But not to
9.3, which is due in just a few weeks, just like 8.4).  If it is just a
side effect of some other change, it will probably *not* be undone, not
on trunk (GCC 10) either.  It depends.

But sure, always test trunk if you can.

Segher