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Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy

From Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy
Date 2017-03-05 01:40 +0100
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On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 04:23:17PM -0800, hpa@zytor.com wrote:
> What are the compilation flags? It may be that gcc still does TRT
> depending on this call site. I'd check what gcc6 or 7 generates,
> though.

Well, I don't think that matters: if you're building a kernel on one
machine to boot on another machine, the compiler can't know at build
time what the best MOVS* variant would be for the target machine. That's
why we're doing the alternatives patching at *boot* time.

However, if the size is small enough, the CALL/patch overhead would be
definitely too much.

Hmm, I wish we were able to say, "let gcc decide for small sizes and let
us do the patching for larger ones."

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    Boris.

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Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-03-04 22:20 +0100
  Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-04 23:50 +0100
    Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy hpa@zytor.com - 2017-03-05 01:00 +0100
      Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-05 01:20 +0100
        Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy hpa@zytor.com - 2017-03-05 01:30 +0100
          Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-05 01:40 +0100
            Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy hpa@zytor.com - 2017-03-05 02:00 +0100
              Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-05 11:00 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-05 12:20 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-05 14:10 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-03-05 20:30 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-05 21:20 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-03-05 21:20 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-03-06 08:10 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2017-03-06 08:40 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-03-06 18:50 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy hpa@zytor.com - 2017-03-06 20:10 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-06 14:40 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy hpa@zytor.com - 2017-03-06 14:50 +0100
                Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-06 15:10 +0100
            Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-03-05 06:00 +0100
              Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-05 11:00 +0100

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