On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01 2015 at 15:57 -0600, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:47:49 +0100 Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> > -static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, free_page_t
>>>> > put_new_page,
>>>> > - unsigned long private, struct page *page, int
>>>> > force,
>>>> > - enum migrate_mode mode)
>>>> > +static noinline int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
>>>> > + free_page_t put_new_page,
>>>> > + unsigned long private, struct page
>>>> > *page,
>>>> > + int force, enum migrate_mode mode)
>>>> > {
>>>> > int rc = 0;
>>>> > int *result = NULL;
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Ouch. That's really ugly. And on 32bit ARM, we end-up spilling half of
>>>> the parameters on the stack, which is not going to help performance
>>>> either (not that this would be useful on 32bit ARM anyway...).
>>>>
>>>> Any chance you could make this dependent on some compiler detection
>>>> mechanism?
>>>
>>>
>>> With my arm compiler (gcc-4.4.4) the patch makes no difference -
>>> unmap_and_move() isn't being inlined anyway.
>>>
>>> How does this look?
>>>
>>> Kevin, could you please retest? I might have fat-fingered something...
>>
>>
>> Your patch on top of Geert's still compiles fine for me with gcc-4.7.3.
>> However, I'm not sure how specific we can be on the versions.
>>
>> /me goes to test a few more compilers... OK...
>>
>> ICE: 4.7.1, 4.7.3, 4.8.3
>> OK: 4.6.3, 4.9.2, 4.9.3
>>
>> The diff below[2] on top of yours compiles fine here and at least covers
>> the compilers I *know* to trigger the ICE.
>
>
> I see ICE on arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.4-2ubuntu1) 4.7.4
>
Thanks for checking. I'm assuming my patch fixes it for your since
that should catch any 4.7.x compiler.
Kevin
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