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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/migrate: Mark unmap_and_move() "noinline" to avoid ICE in gcc 4.7.3
On Wed, Apr 01 2015 at 15:57 -0600, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:47:49 +0100 Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > -static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, free_page_t put_new_page,
>>> > - unsigned long private, struct page *page, int force,
>>> > - enum migrate_mode mode)
>>> > +static noinline int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
>>> > + free_page_t put_new_page,
>>> > + unsigned long private, struct page *page,
>>> > + int force, enum migrate_mode mode)
>>> > {
>>> > int rc = 0;
>>> > int *result = NULL;
>>> >
>>>
>>> Ouch. That's really ugly. And on 32bit ARM, we end-up spilling half of
>>> the parameters on the stack, which is not going to help performance
>>> either (not that this would be useful on 32bit ARM anyway...).
>>>
>>> Any chance you could make this dependent on some compiler detection
>>> mechanism?
>>
>> With my arm compiler (gcc-4.4.4) the patch makes no difference -
>> unmap_and_move() isn't being inlined anyway.
>>
>> How does this look?
>>
>> Kevin, could you please retest? I might have fat-fingered something...
>
>Your patch on top of Geert's still compiles fine for me with gcc-4.7.3.
>However, I'm not sure how specific we can be on the versions.
>
>/me goes to test a few more compilers... OK...
>
>ICE: 4.7.1, 4.7.3, 4.8.3
>OK: 4.6.3, 4.9.2, 4.9.3
>
>The diff below[2] on top of yours compiles fine here and at least covers
>the compilers I *know* to trigger the ICE.

I see ICE on
arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.4-2ubuntu1) 4.7.4

>
>Kevin
>
>
>[1]
>diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
>index 25fd7f6291de..6e15ae3248e0 100644
>--- a/mm/migrate.c
>+++ b/mm/migrate.c
>@@ -901,10 +901,10 @@ out:
> }
>
> /*
>- * gcc-4.7.3 on arm gets an ICE when inlining unmap_and_move(). Work around
>+ * gcc 4.7 and 4.8 on arm gets an ICE when inlining unmap_and_move(). Work around
> * it.
> */
>-#if GCC_VERSION == 40703 && defined(CONFIG_ARM)
>+#if (GCC_VERSION >= 40700 && GCC_VERSION < 40900) && defined(CONFIG_ARM)
> #define ICE_noinline noinline
> #else
> #define ICE_noinline
>
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