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From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 Jun 2021 13:49:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9] pgo: add clang's Profile Guided Optimization infrastructure
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:07 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 9:23 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 05:35:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 08:26:01AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > > So, AFAICT, the original blocking issue ("PGO does not respect noinstr")
> > > > is not actually an issue (noinstr contains notrace, which IS respected
> > > > by PGO[2]), I think this is fine to move forward.
> > >
> > > It is *NOT*: https://godbolt.org/z/9c7xdvGd9
> > >
> > > Look at how both compilers generate instrumentation in the no_instr()
> > > function.
> >
> > Well that's disappointing. I'll put this on hold until Clang can grow an
> > appropriate attribute (or similar work-around). Thanks for catching
> > that.
>
> Cross referencing since these two threads are related.
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOdmPTi93n2L0_yQkrzLdmpxzrOR7zggSzonyaw2PGshApw@mail.gmail.com/

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80223 looked appropriate
to me, so I commented on it.
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80223#c6

Patches for:
PGO: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104253
GCOV: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104257
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers