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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Minimize uaccess exposure in i915_gem_execbuffer2_ioctl()
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:56:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200228195639.GL23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200228180441.GL18400@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 07:04:41PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:03:42PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > And why not mark gen8_canonical_addr() __always_inline?
> > 
> > Right, marking those two functions as __always_inline is the other
> > option.  The problem is, if you keep doing it, eventually you end up
> > with __always_inline-itis spreading all over the place.  And it affects
> > all the other callers, at least in the CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE case.
> > At least this fix is localized.
> 
> I'm all for __always_inline in this case, the compiler not inlining sign
> extention is just retarded,

FWIW, in this case it's
        salq    $8, %rax
        sarq    $8, %rax
i.e. 8 bytes.  Sure, that's 3 bytes longer than call, but really, WTF?

      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-28 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-27 22:08 [PATCH] drm/i915: Minimize uaccess exposure in i915_gem_execbuffer2_ioctl() Josh Poimboeuf
2020-02-27 22:26 ` Chris Wilson
2020-02-28 16:10   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-02-27 22:35 ` Al Viro
2020-02-28  1:03   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-02-28  2:42     ` Randy Dunlap
2020-02-28 18:04     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-28 19:56       ` Al Viro [this message]

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