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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <AHERRMAN@de.ibm.com>,
	viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, heicars2@de.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resubmit] do_mount: reduce stack consumption
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 18:45:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051104174506.GA4720@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051104094212.23f07ce7.akpm@osdl.org>

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:42:12AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andreas Herrmann <AHERRMAN@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Obviously you missed the point that (depending on the compiler version,
> >  options etc.) do_move_mount() and do_add_mount() can be inlined.
> 
> I think we found a way of preventing the 3.x compiler from doing that.  Arjan,
> do you recall where we ended up with that problem?

it was mostly caused by -funit-at-a-time that caused 3.x to go haywire. You
need to turn that off in general.

the real fix is in gcc 4.x (4.1 at least) where gcc got a lot smarter about
stack slot lifetimes

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-04 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04 15:53 [PATCH resubmit] do_mount: reduce stack consumption Andreas Herrmann
2005-11-04 17:42 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-04 17:45   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-11-04 18:37     ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-04 10:50 Heiko Carstens
2005-11-04 11:48 ` Al Viro
2005-11-04 12:57   ` Heiko Carstens
2005-11-04 14:06     ` Al Viro
2005-11-04 22:03       ` Heiko Carstens
2005-11-04 16:48 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-04 21:27   ` Heiko Carstens
2005-11-04 23:55     ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-05  0:08       ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-05  1:15         ` cplk
2005-11-05  1:37           ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-05  5:37             ` Neil Brown

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