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SubjectRe: [PATCH][GIT PULL][v2.6.32] tracing/x86: Add check to detect GCC messing with mcount prologue
H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>> H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>>>> Ingo, Thomas and Linus,
>>>>>
>>>>> I know Thomas did a patch to force the -mtune=generic, but just in case
>>>>> gcc decides to do something crazy again, this patch will catch it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Should we try to get this in now?
>>>> I'm sure this makes sense, but a gcc test case would be even better.
>>>> If this can be detected in the gcc test suite it'll be found and
>>>> fixed long before y'all in kernel land get to see it. That's the
>>>> only way to guarantee this never bothers you again.
>>>>
>>>> H.J., who wrote the code in question, is hopefully looking at why
>>>> this odd code is being generated. Once he's done I can put a
>>>> suitable test case in the gcc test suite.
>>>>
>>> See:
>>>
>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42109#c7
>> I saw that, but does it mean you're going to investigate? There is
>> no obvious reason why -mtune=generic should affect code generation
>> in this way, but it does.
>
> Why not, there is
>
> static const unsigned int x86_accumulate_outgoing_args
> = m_AMD_MULTIPLE | m_ATOM | m_PENT4 | m_NOCONA | m_PPRO | m_CORE2
> | m_GENERIC;
>
> -mtune=generic turns on -maccumulate-outgoing-args.

Alright, so let's at least try to give the kernel people the information
that they need.

What you're saying is, to avoid this:

000005f0 <timer_stats_update_stats>:
5f0: 57 push %edi
5f1: 8d 7c 24 08 lea 0x8(%esp),%edi
5f5: 83 e4 f0 and $0xfffffff0,%esp
5f8: ff 77 fc pushl -0x4(%edi)
5fb: 55 push %ebp
5fc: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp

you should compile your code with -maccumulate-outgoing-args, and there's
no need to use -mtune=generic. Is that right?

Andrew.



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