Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965715AbbKDVnD (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2015 16:43:03 -0500 Received: from unicorn.mansr.com ([81.2.72.234]:49722 "EHLO unicorn.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965372AbbKDVnA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2015 16:43:00 -0500 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Arnd Bergmann , kbuild test robot , kbuild-all@01.org, Alexey Brodkin , rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] do_div(): generic optimization for constant divisor on 32-bit machines References: <201511031333.Yk9ngQZJ%fengguang.wu@intel.com> <21544300.LSjO3j3Xy7@wuerfel> Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 21:42:58 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Wed, 4 Nov 2015 16:04:57 -0500 (EST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1774 Lines: 49 Nicolas Pitre writes: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> On Tuesday 03 November 2015 13:32:17 kbuild test robot wrote: >> > >> > net/can/bcm.c: In function 'bcm_proc_show': >> > >> net/can/bcm.c:223:1: warning: the frame size of 1156 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] >> > } >> >> Interesting, that is a lot of stack for a function that only has a couple >> of local variables: >> >> #define IFNAMSIZ 16 >> char ifname[IFNAMSIZ]; >> struct sock *sk = (struct sock *)m->private; >> struct bcm_sock *bo = bcm_sk(sk); >> struct bcm_op *op; >> >> >> This is a parisc-allyesconfig kernel, so I assume that CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES >> is on, which instruments every 'if' in the kernel. If that causes problems, >> we could decide to disable the do_div optimization whenever CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES >> is enabled. > > I have an ARM allyesconfig build here where that function needs a frame > of 88 bytes only. And that is with my do_div optimization applied. > > With the do_div optimization turned off, the stack frame is still 88 > bytes. > > Turning on CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES makes the frame size to grow to > 96 bytes. > > Keeping CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES=y and activating the do_div > optimization again, and the function frame size goes back to 88 bytes. > > So I wonder what parisc gcc could be doing with this code. I've seen parisc gcc do many strange things. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mans@mansr.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/