On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 05:25:07PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 05:59:10PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > This conversion makes GCC generate worse code. Conversion __PHYSICAL_MASK > > to a patchable constant adds about 5k in .text on defconfig and makes it > > slightly slower at runtime (~0.2% on my box). > > Do you have explicit examples for the worse code? That might give clue > on how to improve things. Clarification: increase by 5k was for defconfig, where I replaced pure constant define __PHYSICAL_MASK with patchable constant. With CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y increase is smaller: ~1.8k. The disassembler below is for CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y. Before: Dump of assembler code for function migration_entry_wait: 0xffffffff8118ab40 <+0>: mov (%rsi),%rcx 0xffffffff8118ab43 <+3>: shr $0x9,%rdx 0xffffffff8118ab47 <+7>: mov 0x10aecba(%rip),%r8 # 0xffffffff82239808 <sme_me_mask> 0xffffffff8118ab4e <+14>: mov %rdx,%rax 0xffffffff8118ab51 <+17>: mov 0x10aec90(%rip),%r9 # 0xffffffff822397e8 <vmemmap_base> 0xffffffff8118ab58 <+24>: movabs $0x3fffffe00000,%rsi 0xffffffff8118ab62 <+34>: and $0xff8,%eax 0xffffffff8118ab67 <+39>: test $0x80,%cl 0xffffffff8118ab6a <+42>: not %r8 0xffffffff8118ab6d <+45>: jne 0xffffffff8118ab79 <migration_entry_wait+57> 0xffffffff8118ab6f <+47>: movabs $0x3ffffffff000,%rsi 0xffffffff8118ab79 <+57>: and %r8,%rsi 0xffffffff8118ab7c <+60>: add 0x10aec75(%rip),%rax # 0xffffffff822397f8 <page_offset_base> 0xffffffff8118ab83 <+67>: and %rsi,%rcx 0xffffffff8118ab86 <+70>: mov %rcx,%rdx 0xffffffff8118ab89 <+73>: shr $0x6,%rdx 0xffffffff8118ab8d <+77>: mov %rax,%rsi 0xffffffff8118ab90 <+80>: lea 0x30(%r9,%rdx,1),%rdx 0xffffffff8118ab95 <+85>: add %rcx,%rsi 0xffffffff8118ab98 <+88>: jmpq 0xffffffff8118aa20 <__migration_entry_wait> After: Dump of assembler code for function migration_entry_wait: 0xffffffff8118b3e0 <+0>: mov (%rsi),%rsi 0xffffffff8118b3e3 <+3>: mov %rdx,%rax 0xffffffff8118b3e6 <+6>: mov 0x10ae41b(%rip),%r8 # 0xffffffff82239808 <vmemmap_base> 0xffffffff8118b3ed <+13>: shr $0x9,%rax 0xffffffff8118b3f1 <+17>: and $0xff8,%eax 0xffffffff8118b3f6 <+22>: test $0x80,%sil 0xffffffff8118b3fa <+26>: jne 0xffffffff8118b432 <migration_entry_wait+82> 0xffffffff8118b3fc <+28>: mov %rsi,%rdx 0xffffffff8118b3ff <+31>: movabs $0x3fffffffffff,%rcx 0xffffffff8118b409 <+41>: and %rcx,%rdx 0xffffffff8118b40c <+44>: and $0xfffffffffffff000,%rcx 0xffffffff8118b413 <+51>: shr $0xc,%rdx 0xffffffff8118b417 <+55>: shl $0x6,%rdx 0xffffffff8118b41b <+59>: lea 0x30(%r8,%rdx,1),%rdx 0xffffffff8118b420 <+64>: add 0x10ae3f1(%rip),%rax # 0xffffffff82239818 <page_offset_base> 0xffffffff8118b427 <+71>: and %rcx,%rsi 0xffffffff8118b42a <+74>: add %rax,%rsi 0xffffffff8118b42d <+77>: jmpq 0xffffffff8118b2c0 <__migration_entry_wait> 0xffffffff8118b432 <+82>: mov %rsi,%rdx 0xffffffff8118b435 <+85>: and $0xffffffffffe00000,%rdx 0xffffffff8118b43c <+92>: movabs $0x3fffffffffff,%rcx 0xffffffff8118b446 <+102>: and %rcx,%rdx 0xffffffff8118b449 <+105>: and $0xffffffffffe00000,%rcx 0xffffffff8118b450 <+112>: shr $0x6,%rdx 0xffffffff8118b454 <+116>: lea 0x30(%r8,%rdx,1),%rdx 0xffffffff8118b459 <+121>: jmp 0xffffffff8118b420 <migration_entry_wait+64> -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>