From f81f8ad56fd1c7b99b2ed1c314527f7d9ac447c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nadav Amit Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 14:30:56 -0700 Subject: x86/bug: Macrofy the BUG table section handling, to work around GCC inlining bugs As described in: 77b0bf55bc67: ("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. As a result GCC considers the inline assembly block as a single instruction. (Which it isn't, but that's the best we can get.) This patch increases the kernel size: text data bss dec hex filename 18146889 10225380 2957312 31329581 1de0d2d ./vmlinux before 18147336 10226688 2957312 31331336 1de1408 ./vmlinux after (+1755) But enables more aggressive inlining (and probably better branch decisions). The number of static text symbols in vmlinux is much lower: Before: 40218 After: 40053 (-165) The assembly code gets harder to read due to the extra macro layer. [ mingo: Rewrote the changelog. ] Tested-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003213100.189959-7-namit@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/macros.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/macros.S b/arch/x86/kernel/macros.S index 852487a9fc56..66ccb8e823b1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/macros.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/macros.S @@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ #include #include #include +#include -- cgit v1.2.3