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    SubjectRe: [PATCH][GIT PULL][v2.6.32] tracing/x86: Add check to detect GCC messing with mcount prologue
    On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
    >
    > > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
    > >
    > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 03:55:49PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
    > > > > > you should compile your code with -maccumulate-outgoing-args, and there's
    > > > > > no need to use -mtune=generic. Is that right?
    > > > >
    > > > > Seems to work. What other side effects has that ?
    > > >
    > > > Faster code, significant increase in code size though. Note that on many
    > > > architectures it is the only supported model.
    > >
    > > Just checked on the affected -marchs. The increase in code size is
    > > about 3% which is not that bad and definitely acceptable for the
    > > tracing case. Will zap the -mtune=generic patch and use
    > > -maccumulate-outgoing-args instead.
    >
    > hm, 3% sounds quite large :( dyn-ftrace is enabled in distro configs, so
    > 3% is a big deal IMO.

    Distro-configs have -mtune=generic anyway. So it's not changing
    anything for them.

    I'm talking about the -march flags which result in that weird code
    (pentium-mmx ....).

    Thanks,

    tglx


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