[patch 0/2] Immediate Values - jump patching update

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>]

Hi Ingo,

Here is the update to the jump patching optimization taking care of Peter's
comments about register liveliness and instruction re-use by gcc optimizations.
A good thing : it actually simplifies the code. Unfortunately, it adds 3 bytes
to the instructions in i-cache because I now have to use a 5-bytes mov
instruction so I can replace it with a 5-bytes jump. Therefore, 9 bytes are
added to rather small functions (5-bytes mov + 2-bytes test + 2 bytes
conditional branch) and 13 bytes are added to larger functions which needs a 6
bytes conditional branch at the branch site.

Instead of having to execute a sequence of nop, nop and jump, we now only have
to execute the near jump, which jumps either at the address following the
conditional branch or at the target address of the conditional branch, depending
on the immediate value variable state.

Thanks to Peter for the review.

Those two patches apply on top of sched-devel.git.

Mathieu

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