From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/10] x86: Compile-time asm code validation
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 08:08:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150611060807.GA30720@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150610221716.GF1125@treble.redhat.com>
* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> I should also mention that my proposed ia32_ptregs_common patch, which
> duplicated the needed code, was more optimized for performance than code size.
>
> But if you're more worried about code size, we could turn ia32_ptregs_common
> into a proper callable function, and then replace
>
> jmp ia32_ptregs_common
>
> with:
>
> call ia32_ptregs_common
> ret
>
> So it becomes a regular call instead of a tail call. It only adds a few
> instructions and the function is self-contained. Would that be good enough?
No, debug info should not slow down the kernel, especially not code we write in
assembly partly for performance.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-11 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-10 12:06 [PATCH v5 00/10] x86/asm: Compile-time asm code validation Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 01/10] x86/asm: Add FP_SAVE/RESTORE frame pointer macros Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:17 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-10 18:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 4:22 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-06-11 6:46 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-11 12:06 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-06-11 14:18 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] x86: Compile-time asm code validation Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 17:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-10 17:53 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-10 18:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 22:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 6:08 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-06-11 14:01 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 6:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-11 14:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-12 11:18 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-12 14:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-12 16:00 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-12 16:41 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:16 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2015-06-10 18:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] x86/asm/entry: Fix asmvalidate warnings for entry_64_compat.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] x86/asm/crypto: Fix asmvalidate warnings for aesni-intel_asm.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] x86/asm/crypto: Fix asmvalidate warnings for ghash-clmulni-intel_asm.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] x86/asm/efi: Fix asmvalidate warnings for efi_stub_64.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 13:14 ` Matt Fleming
2015-06-12 19:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] x86/asm/acpi: Fix asmvalidate warnings for wakeup_64.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 13:19 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-10 14:08 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 12:36 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-10 13:21 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-10 14:13 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-11 6:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] x86/asm/head: Fix asmvalidate warnings for head_64.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] x86/asm/lib: Fix asmvalidate warnings for lib functions Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] x86/asm/lib: Fix asmvalidate warnings for rwsem.S Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 12:16 ` [PATCH v5 00/10] x86/asm: Compile-time asm code validation Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 13:08 ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-10 13:52 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 14:11 ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-10 14:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 15:04 ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-10 15:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 16:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:41 ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-10 19:43 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:40 ` Andi Kleen
2015-06-10 19:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 19:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-10 19:51 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 13:42 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-10 14:20 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-06-10 18:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-10 20:26 ` Josh Poimboeuf
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