linux-kernel - Re: gcc feature request / RFC: extra clobbered regs

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Date:	Wed, 1 Jul 2015 17:31:33 +0200
From:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
To:	Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, gcc@....gnu.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: gcc feature request / RFC: extra clobbered regs

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 11:23:17AM -0400, Vladimir Makarov wrote:
> >>(I'm not necessarily suggesting that we do this for the syscall bodies
> >>themselves.  I want to do it for the entry and exit helpers, so we'd
> >>still lose the five cycles in the full fast-path case, but we'd do
> >>better in the slower paths, and the slower paths are becoming
> >>increasingly important in real workloads.)
> >GCC already supports -ffixed-REG, -fcall-used-REG and -fcall-saved-REG
> >options, which allow to tweak the calling conventions; but it is per
> >translation unit right now.  It isn't clear which of these options
> >you mean with the extra_clobber.
> >I assume you are looking for a possibility to change this to be
> >per-function, with caller with a different calling convention having to
> >adjust for different ABI callee.  To some extent, recent GCC versions
> >do that automatically with -fipa-ra already - if some call used registers
> >are not clobbered by some call and the caller can analyze that callee,
> >it can stick values in such registers across the call.
> >I'd say the most natural API for this would be to allow
> >f{fixed,call-{used,saved}}-REG in target attribute.
> >
> >
> One consequence of frequent changing calling convention per function or
> register usage could be GCC slowdown.  RA calculates too many data and it
> requires a lot of time to recalculate them after something in the register
> usage convention is changed.

That is true.  i?86/x86_64 is a switchable target, so at least for the case
of info computed for the callee with non-standard calling convention such
info can be computed just once when the function with such a target
attribute would be seen first.  But for the caller side, I agree not
everything can be precomputed, if we can't use e.g. regsets saved in the
callee; as a single function can call different functions with different
ABIs.  But to some extent we have that already with -fipa-ra, don't we?

	Jakub
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