linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/7] Immediate Values

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Message-ID: <20071022095306.GA43910@muc.de>
Date:	Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:53:06 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] Immediate Values - i386 Optimization

> - Either I use a "r" constraint and let gcc produce the instructions,
>   that I need to assume to have correct size so I can align their
>   immediate values (therefore, taking the offset from the end of the
>   instruction will not help). Here, if gas changes its behavior
>   dramatically for a given immediate value size, it will break.

I wouldn't expect it to do that, but you could perhaps add a self
test somewhere to check for it.

> 
> - Second choice is to stick to a particular register, choosing the one
>   with the less side-effect, and encoding the instruction ourselves. I
>   start to think that this second solution might be safer, even though
>   we wouldn't let the compiler select the register which has the less
>   impact by itself.

Such effects caused occassional bugs in the alternative() implementation
which requires a maximum size for the replacement.

But in this case it should be safe enough to trust gas stability.

-Andi
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