Commit d9ee948
x86/asm: Use -mskip-rax-setup if supported
GCC 5 added a compiler option, -mskip-rax-setup, for x86-64. It skips
setting up the RAX register when SSE is disabled and there are no
variable arguments passed in vector registers. (According to the x86_64
ABI, %al is used as a hidden register containing the number of vector
registers used).
Since the kernel doesn't pass vector registers to functions with
variable arguments, this option can be used to optimize the x86-64
kernel.
This GCC feature was suggested by Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>.
This is the corresponding kernel change using it.
For kernel v3.17:
text data bss dec filename
11455921 2204048 5853184 19513153 vmlinux #with -mskip-rax-setup
11480079 2204048 5853184 19537311 vmlinux
For Kernel v4.0+ - custom config:
text data bss dec filename
10231778 3479800 16617472 30329050 vmlinux-gcc5+-mskip-rax-setup
10268797 3547448 16621568 3043781 vmlinux
Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>1 parent 3f5159a commit d9ee948
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