From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: [PATCH v2 00/10] x86: use gcc 6+ asm flag output feature
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 12:38:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1465414726-197858-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> (raw)
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
gcc 6+ has the ability to let flags (actually, conditions, which are
specific combinations of flags) to be used directly as asm() outputs.
The syntax for that is "=@cc<cc>" where <cc> is the same set of
letters that would be used in a j<cc> or set<cc> instruction
(e.g. "=@ccz" to test the ZF flag.)
This patchset by itself reduces the size of the x86-64 kernel by
0.12%, from a baseline of 4.7-rc2 built with gcc 6.1 (first line is
with the patchset, the second one is without):
text data bss dec hex filename
68245656 41004339 20533248 129783243 7bc55cb o.i386-allconfig/vmlinux
68355716 41008499 20533248 129897463 7be13f7 o.i386-allconfig/vmlinux
127384005 129742359 38150144 295276508 11998fdc o.x86_64-allconfig/vmlinux
127538765 129742295 38150144 295431204 119bec24 o.x86_64-allconfig/vmlinux
v2: fix a conflict between <linux/random.h> and <asm/archrandom.h>
discovered by Ingo Molnar. There are a few places in x86-specific
code where we need all of <arch/archrandom.h> even when
xCONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM is disabled, so <linux/random.h> does not
suffice. Only the <asm/archrandom.h> patch has been changed;
since it is a little bit different from the others I have moved it
to the end.
next reply other threads:[~2016-06-08 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-08 19:38 H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2016-06-08 19:38 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] x86, bitops: remove use of "sbb" to return CF H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:45 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:38 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] x86, asm: use bool for bitops and other assembly outputs H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:46 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:38 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] x86, asm: change the GEN_*_RMWcc() macros to not quote the condition H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:46 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:38 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] x86, asm: define CC_SET() and CC_OUT() macros H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:47 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:38 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] x86, asm: change GEN_*_RMWcc() to use CC_SET()/CC_OUT() H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:47 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:38 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] x86, asm: Use CC_SET()/CC_OUT() in <asm/bitops.h> H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:48 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:38 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] x86, asm: Use CC_SET()/CC_OUT() in <asm/percpu.h> H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:48 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:38 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] x86, asm: Use CC_SET()/CC_OUT() in <asm/rwsem.h> H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:49 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:38 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] x86, asm, boot: Use CC_SET()/CC_OUT() in arch/x86/boot/boot.h H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:49 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:38 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] x86, asm: Use CC_SET()/CC_OUT() and static_cpu_has() in archrandom.h H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-08 19:49 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-09 15:49 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] " Borislav Petkov
2016-06-08 21:30 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] x86: use gcc 6+ asm flag output feature H. Peter Anvin
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