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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Guo Ren' <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Evgenii Shatokhin <e.shatokhin@yadro.com>,
	"suagrfillet@gmail.com" <suagrfillet@gmail.com>,
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	Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH -next V7 0/7] riscv: Optimize function trace
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 09:00:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f00256bcbe114669acca1b0105cefb99@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJF2gTQGxxgusRgPdNaw4-d+o0a4vefUj7PNpZuym6VKQC4dhw@mail.gmail.com>

From: Guo Ren
> Sent: 09 February 2023 01:51
...
> Yours cost one more instruction, right?
>          addr-12  auipc
>          addr-8    jalr
>          addr-4    // Literal (32-bits)
>          addr+0   nop or jmp addr-n // one more?
>          addr+4   function_code

Yes, it is 4 bytes larger but there is one less
instruction executed (only one nop) when ftrace is disabled.
That probably matters more than anything in the ftrace
'prologue' code.

I also suspect that you can use a 32bit integer as
a table index in 64bit mode to save a word there.

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-09  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-12  9:05 [PATCH -next V7 0/7] riscv: Optimize function trace guoren
2023-01-12  9:05 ` [PATCH -next V7 1/7] riscv: ftrace: Fixup panic by disabling preemption guoren
2023-01-12 12:16   ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-12 12:57     ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-28  9:45       ` Guo Ren
2023-01-28  9:37     ` Guo Ren
2023-01-30 10:54       ` Mark Rutland
2023-02-04  1:19         ` Guo Ren
2023-01-12  9:05 ` [PATCH -next V7 2/7] riscv: ftrace: Remove wasted nops for !RISCV_ISA_C guoren
2023-01-12  9:05 ` [PATCH -next V7 3/7] riscv: ftrace: Reduce the detour code size to half guoren
2023-01-16 14:11   ` Evgenii Shatokhin
2023-01-12  9:06 ` [PATCH -next V7 4/7] riscv: ftrace: Add ftrace_graph_func guoren
2023-01-12  9:06 ` [PATCH -next V7 5/7] riscv: ftrace: Add DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS support guoren
2023-01-12  9:06 ` [PATCH -next V7 6/7] samples: ftrace: Add riscv support for SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT[_MULTI] guoren
2023-01-16 14:30   ` Evgenii Shatokhin
2023-01-17  9:32     ` Song Shuai
2023-01-17 13:16       ` Evgenii Shatokhin
2023-01-17 16:22         ` Evgenii Shatokhin
2023-01-18  2:37           ` Song Shuai
2023-01-18 15:19             ` Evgenii Shatokhin
2023-01-19  6:05               ` Guo Ren
2023-02-18 21:30                 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-02-20  2:46                   ` Song Shuai
2023-02-21  3:56                     ` Guo Ren
2023-02-21  4:02                   ` Guo Ren
2023-01-12  9:06 ` [PATCH -next V7 7/7] riscv : select FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY guoren
2023-01-16 15:02 ` [PATCH -next V7 0/7] riscv: Optimize function trace Evgenii Shatokhin
2023-02-04  6:40   ` Guo Ren
2023-02-06  9:56     ` Mark Rutland
2023-02-07  3:57       ` Guo Ren
2023-02-07  9:16         ` Mark Rutland
2023-02-08  2:30           ` Guo Ren
2023-02-08 14:46             ` Mark Rutland
2023-02-09  1:31               ` Guo Ren
2023-02-09 22:46                 ` David Laight
2023-02-10  2:18                   ` Guo Ren
2023-02-08 22:29             ` David Laight
2023-02-09  1:51               ` Guo Ren
2023-02-09  1:59                 ` Guo Ren
2023-02-09  9:54                   ` Mark Rutland
2023-02-10  2:21                     ` Guo Ren
2023-02-09  9:00                 ` David Laight [this message]
2023-02-09  9:11                   ` Guo Ren
2023-02-18 21:42 ` patchwork-bot+linux-riscv

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