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Message-ID: <5554F1C4.5060802@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 May 2015 21:04:36 +0200
From:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CC:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@...com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Align jump targets to 1 byte boundaries

On 05/14/2015 08:17 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> There were also these other changes I tested:
> 
> +        # Reduces vmlinux size by 0.25%:
> +        KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-caller-saves
> +
> +        # Reduces vmlinux size by 1.10%:
> +        KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-inline-small-functions
> +
> +        # Reduces vmlinux size by about 0.95%:
> +        KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-tree-ch
> 
> We could maybe consider -fno-caller-saves. What do you think about 
> that option?

Quick googling din't even find what it does.
It would need a comment :)
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