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From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	"H. J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ia64: fix module loading for gcc-5.4+
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:53:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170410225336.5856d652@sf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8146490-2bc4-3884-a64e-1e5894a023e3@users.sourceforge.net>

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On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 19:23:28 +0200
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> > -	if (slot(insn) != 2) {
> > +	if (slot(insn) != 1 && slot(insn) != 2) {  
> 
> +	int const s = slot(insn);
> +	if (s < 1 || s > 2) {
> 
> Do run time characteristics matter for such a condition check here?

It's done once at kernel module load time. My guess would be
"not critical at all".

slot() is a pure arithmetic static inline function. You can compare
assembly output before and after your change.

You can measure the difference yourself using 'ski' emulator.
That's for example how I debugged and tested the patch:
     http://trofi.github.io/posts/199-ia64-machine-emulation.html

-- 

  Sergei

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-10 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <to=<20170408081449.4872-1-slyfox@gentoo.org>
2017-04-08 19:53 ` [PATCH v3] ia64: fix module loading for gcc-5.4 Sergei Trofimovich
2017-04-09  8:27   ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-09  8:51     ` Sergei Trofimovich
2017-04-09  9:02       ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-09 10:38         ` Sergei Trofimovich
2017-04-10 17:23   ` [PATCH v3] ia64: fix module loading for gcc-5.4+ SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-10 21:53     ` Sergei Trofimovich [this message]
2017-04-29 18:14   ` [PATCH v3] ia64: fix module loading for gcc-5.4 Sergei Trofimovich

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