Re: [PATCH 20/22] x86,word-at-a-time: Remove .fixup usage

Peter Zijlstra
2021-11-09T22:11:45Z

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 01:25:47PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 1:21 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 12:59:12PM -0800, Bill Wendling wrote:
> > >
> > > Adding attributes to labels shouldn't be difficult, as you mention. In
> > > the case of cold/hot, it's adjusting some of the metadata that already
> > > exists on some basic blocks. It might be enough to allow the normal
> > > block placement algorithms to move the hot and cold blocks around for
> > > us. The question becomes how many attributes does GCC allow on labels?
> >
> > I'm aware of 3: unused, hot, cold. Also:
> >
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Label-Attributes.html
>
> Re: unused:
> Being able to selectively disable -Wunused-label via
> __attribute__((unused)); seems useful, too.

kernel/sched/fair.c:done: __maybe_unused;

Yes it is ;-)