From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
ling.ma.program@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ma Ling <ling.ml@alipay.com>
Subject: Re: [Suggestion] [x86]: Compiler Option Os is better on latest x86
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:25:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130124152544.GA13504@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51014B9A.5080500@zytor.com>
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 08:56:26AM -0600, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> There has been occasional talk about a -Ok(ernel) option to gcc, but
> that would require someone to go through gcc and figure out what bits
> makes sense and which don't...
Yep, such an option has a great potential for us and, if done right,
would be very cool. It could probably be taught to insert HWEIGHT,
RDRAND, CLFLUSH and whatever other insns we have the inline asm versions
for... and query CPUID before that... uuh, nice stuff.
The alternative would be to fork gcc and call it kcc...
/me runs away pretty quickly without even turning back :-)
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-26 6:32 [Suggestion] [x86]: Compiler Option Os is better on latest x86 ling.ma.program
2013-01-24 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-24 14:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-24 14:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-24 15:25 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-01-24 15:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2012-12-31 7:52 ` Ling Ma
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