linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes

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Message-ID: <20120622183827.GA8014@virgo.local>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:38:28 +0200
From:	Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes

* Linus Torvalds | 2012-06-22 11:07:01 [-0700]:

>And gcc can (and does, depending on version and details) inline pretty
>much any static function, whether we mark it inline or not.
>
>Now, there's no question that we don't want inlined functions to be
>traced, but that actually means that the *logical* thing would be to
>try to somehow tell gcc to not ever do the whole stupid mcount thing
>for functions that *might* be inlined - and at least be consistent
>about it.
>
>IOW, is there some way to get the mcount thing to only happen for
>functions that either have their address taken, or have external
>visibility?
>
>Because that mcount thing is expensive as hell, if people haven't
>noticed (and I'm not talking about just the call instruction that I
>think we can stub out - it changes code generation in other ways too).
>And it looks like distros enable it by default, which annoys my
>performance-optimizing soul deeply.

Isn't it stubed out already? Already replaced by nops at boot time by
ftrace_code_disable() and friends!? But yes, there may be spots where the
additional mcount() call avoid optimization.

Hagen
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