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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 18/18] arm64: lto: Strengthen READ_ONCE() to acquire when CLANG_LTO=y
    On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 7:39 PM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
    > +#define __READ_ONCE(x) \
    > +({ \
    > + int atomic = 1; \
    > + union { __unqual_scalar_typeof(x) __val; char __c[1]; } __u; \
    > + typeof(&(x)) __x = &(x); \
    > + switch (sizeof(x)) { \
    ...
    > + atomic ? (typeof(x))__u.__val : (*(volatile typeof(x) *)__x); \
    > +})

    This expands (x) nine times (five in __unqual_scala_typeof()), which can
    lead to significant code bloat after preprocessing if something passes a
    compound expression into READ_ONCE().
    The compiler works it out eventually, but we've seen an actual slowdown
    in compile speed from this recently, especially on clang.

    I think if you move the

    typeof(&(x)) __x = &(x);

    line first, all other instances can use typeof(*__x) instead of typeof(x)
    and avoid this problem. Once we make gcc-4.9 the minimum version,
    this could be further improved to

    __auto_type __x = &(x);

    Arnd

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