Re: [RFC PATCH 04/21] x86/hweight: Add stack frame dependency for __arch_hweight*()

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On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 05:13:12PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> Enough for oopses, perhaps, but maybe not enough for perf.
>>
>> It sounds like you want CFI unwinding :)
>
> What would you want to unwind in those __sw_hweight* almost-trivial,
> tail functions?

So your shiny perf profile shows cumulative time in whatever called
them.  Sure, this is arguably silly if we're stuck with frame
pointers.

--Andy
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