Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2018 13:20:10 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v9 04/10] x86: refcount: prevent gcc distortions |
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 11:31:08AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote: > > > > Are you using defconfig or a reasonable distro-config for your tests? > > > > I think it is best to take the kernel and run localyesconfig for testing. > > Ok, agreed - and this makes the numbers you provided pretty representative. > > Good - now that all of my concerns were addressed I'd like to merge the remaining 3 patches as > well - but they are conflicting with ongoing x86 work in tip:x86/core. The extable conflict is > trivial, the jump-label conflict a bit more involved.
FWIW, gcc guys are not too averse to the idea of enhancing gcc inline asm syntax with a statement which specifies its size so that gcc can use it to do better inlining cost estimation than counting lines.
Lemme work the process ...
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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