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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Segher Boessenkool' <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)"
	<x86@kernel.org>, "Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"llvm@lists.linux.dev" <llvm@lists.linux.dev>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-toolchains <linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v5] x86: use builtins to read eflags
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 22:36:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad0d80fdfb404df6a98c68e759fca199@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220318220901.GS614@gate.crashing.org>

From: Segher Boessenkool
> Sent: 18 March 2022 22:09
...
> It generally is a very good idea to
> have a redzone though, without it you pay much more than necessary for
> frame setup and teardown in leaf functions (similar to some of what the
> misnamed "shrink-wrapping" optimisation does, but the two are mostly
> independent, the benefits add up).

Are there really leaf functions that need to spill data to stack
where the cost of setting up a stack frame is significant?

I'd have thought that was relatively rare.

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-18 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <CAGG=3QWh90r5C3gmTj9zxiJb-mwD=PGqGwZZTjAfyi1NCb1_9w@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <AC3D873E-A28B-41F1-8BF4-2F6F37BCEEB4@zytor.com>
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     [not found]         ` <F5296439-4CA3-4F31-BD91-5ED1510BC382@zytor.com>
2022-03-17 18:00           ` [PATCH v5] x86: use builtins to read eflags Nick Desaulniers
2022-03-17 18:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-17 19:45               ` Bill Wendling
2022-03-17 20:13                 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-17 21:10                   ` Bill Wendling
2022-03-17 21:21                     ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-17 21:45                       ` Bill Wendling
2022-03-17 22:51                         ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-17 23:14                           ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-17 23:19                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-17 23:31                             ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-18  0:05                               ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-17 22:37                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-17 20:13               ` Florian Weimer
2022-03-17 20:36                 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-18  0:25                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-18  1:21                     ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-18  1:50                       ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-17 21:05               ` Andrew Cooper
2022-03-17 21:39                 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-18 17:59                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-03-18 18:19                     ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-18 21:48                       ` Andrew Cooper
2022-03-18 23:10                         ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-18 23:42                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-19  1:13                             ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-19 23:15                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-03-18 22:09                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-18 22:33                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-03-18 22:36                         ` David Laight [this message]
2022-03-18 22:47                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-03-18 22:43                       ` David Laight
2022-03-18 23:03                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-03-18 23:04                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-03-18 23:52                     ` David Laight

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