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Commit 5bdcd510 authored by Nadav Amit's avatar Nadav Amit Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/jump-labels: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs



As described in:

  77b0bf55: ("kbuild/Makefile: Prepare for using macros in inline assembly code to work around asm() related GCC inlining bugs")

GCC's inlining heuristics are broken with common asm() patterns used in
kernel code, resulting in the effective disabling of inlining.

The workaround is to set an assembly macro and call it from the inline
assembly block - which is also a minor cleanup for the jump-label code.

As a result the code size is slightly increased, but inlining decisions
are better:

      text     data     bss      dec     hex  filename
  18163528 10226300 2957312 31347140 1de51c4  ./vmlinux before
  18163608 10227348 2957312 31348268 1de562c  ./vmlinux after (+1128)

And functions such as intel_pstate_adjust_policy_max(),
kvm_cpu_accept_dm_intr(), kvm_register_readl() are inlined.

Tested-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005202718.229565-4-namit@vmware.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181003213100.189959-11-namit@vmware.com/T/#u


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent d5a581d8
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