linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:48:57 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Martin Jambor <mjambor@...e.cz>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	<linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@...gic.com>,
	<qla2xxx-upstream@...gic.com>, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions

On 4/28/2016 11:23 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 28 April 2016 10:58:43 Chris Metcalf wrote:
>> (Resending as text/plain)
>>
>> On 4/27/2016 5:34 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> This won't help on TILE, which is the one architecture that sets
>>> ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING but does not set ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP.
>>> Chris Metcalf should be able to figure out whether we can just
>>> set ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP for tile as well.
>> We certainly could enable ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP.  The only problem is
>> that we never added explicit support for bswap16() in gcc, which is
>> efficiently done on tilegx via the "revbytes" instruction and a 48-bit
>> right-shift.  So gcc instead does a generic thing with four
>> instructions in three bundles, so really not as good as our asm/swab.h.
>>
>> I'm not sure how to weigh the implications of converting to
>> builtin_bswap16 (and possibly upstreaming a better implementation to
>> gcc), vs. disabling ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING (which no one
>> else but x86 uses anyway), vs. just ignoring the compiler bug and
>> hoping it's not an issue in practice
> How about figuring out whether you hit the gcc bug on tile as a
> first step?

I don't have an affected build of gcc handy (just 4.8 and 4.4).  I will pass
this to our compiler folks and see what they know.

> Another idea would be to adapt this section in include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:
>
> #if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING) ||                \
>      !defined(CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING) || (__GNUC__ < 4)
> #define inline          inline          __attribute__((always_inline)) notrace
> #define __inline__      __inline__      __attribute__((always_inline)) notrace
> #define __inline        __inline        __attribute__((always_inline)) notrace
> #else
> /* A lot of inline functions can cause havoc with function tracing */
> #define inline          inline          notrace
> #define __inline__      __inline__      notrace
> #define __inline        __inline        notrace
> #endif
>
> to work around the issue. We already check for gcc before 4.0, and
> we could also check for the affected releases (4.9, 5.x, 6.1) in the
> same place, possibly conditional on ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP with
> a comment pointing to the gcc bug tracker.

This does seem like a more robust solution anyway, since more instances of the
bad inline pattern might get introduced in the future in other places.
I wouldn't make it conditional on ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP for the same reason.

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Mellanox Technologies
http://www.mellanox.com