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Commit d9b0cde9 authored by H.J. Lu's avatar H.J. Lu Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86-64, gcc: Use -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 if supported



On x86-64, the standard ABI requires alignment to 16 bytes.  However,
this is not actually necessary in the kernel (we don't do SSE except
in very controlled ways); and furthermore, the standard kernel entry
on x86-64 actually leaves the stack on an odd 8-byte boundary, which
means that gcc will generate extra instructions to keep the stack
*mis*aligned!

gcc 4.8 adds an -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 option to override this
and lets us save some stack space and a handful of instructions.

Note that this causes us to pass -mno-sse twice; this is redundant,
but necessary since the cc-option test will fail unless -mno-sse is
passed on the same command line.

[ hpa: rewrote the patch description ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOqPfy3JcZRLaUeCjBe9BVY-P6e0uaSbMi5hvS-6WwQueg@mail.gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent 485802a6
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