Re: [Qemu-devel] [v2 1/2] cutils: add avx2 instruction optimization

[Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>]

On 11/10/2015 03:51 AM, Liang Li wrote:
> +__asm__(".type can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset, \%gnu_indirect_function");
> +__asm__(".type buffer_find_nonzero_offset, \%gnu_indirect_function");
> +
> +
> +void *can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_ifunc(void) \
> +                     __asm__("can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset");
> +
> +void *buffer_find_nonzero_offset_ifunc(void) \
> +                     __asm__("buffer_find_nonzero_offset");


Not keen on this.  You can use the ifunc attribute instead of inline asm, and 
the target attribute to enable per-function use of avx2.  And if neither are 
supported, due to compiler limitations, I don't think you should attempt to 
work around that.


r~