Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Force inlining of get_order() to work around gcc10 poor decision
From: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Date: 2020-10-19 04:56:12
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 15:55, Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] wrote:
When building mpc885_ads_defconfig with gcc 10.1,
the function get_order() appears 50 times in vmlinux:
[linux]# ppc-linux-objdump -x vmlinux | grep get_order | wc -l
50
[linux]# size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
3842620 675624 135160 4653404 47015c vmlinux
In the old days, marking a function 'static inline' was forcing
GCC to inline, but since commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly") GCC may decide to not inline
a function.
It looks like GCC 10 is taking poor decisions on this.
get_order() compiles into the following tiny function,
occupying 20 bytes of text.
0000007c <get_order>:
7c: 38 63 ff ff addi r3,r3,-1
80: 54 63 a3 3e rlwinm r3,r3,20,12,31
84: 7c 63 00 34 cntlzw r3,r3
88: 20 63 00 20 subfic r3,r3,32
8c: 4e 80 00 20 blr
By forcing get_order() to be __always_inline, the size of text is
reduced by 1940 bytes, that is almost twice the space occupied by
50 times get_order()
[linux-powerpc]# size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
3840680 675588 135176 4651444 46f9b4 vmlinuxI see similar results with GCC 10.2 building for arm32. There are 143 instances of get_order with aspeed_g5_defconfig. Before: 9071838 2630138 186468 11888444 b5673c vmlinux After: 9069886 2630126 186468 11886480 b55f90 vmlinux 1952 bytes smaller with your patch applied. Did you raise this with anyone from GCC? Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted> --- include/asm-generic/getorder.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/include/asm-generic/getorder.h b/include/asm-generic/getorder.h index e9f20b813a69..f2979e3a96b6 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/getorder.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/getorder.h@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ * * The result is undefined if the size is 0. */ -static inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size) +static __always_inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size) { if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) { if (!size) --2.25.0