linux-kernel - Re: MD-RAID: Use seq_putc() in three status functions?

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Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:24:50 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@...e.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Joe Perches <coupons@...ches.com>,
        Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>,
        Neil Brown <neilb@...e.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, kbuild-all@...org,
        ltp@...ts.linux.it
Subject: Re: MD-RAID: Use seq_putc() in three status functions?

>> So back to the original task for you: Show me in the generated output where the benefits are.

I can offer another bit of information for this software development discussion.

The following build settings were active in my "Makefile" for this Linux test case.

…
HOSTCFLAGS   = -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O0 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu89
…


The afffected source files can be compiled for the processor architecture "x86_64"
by a tool like "GCC 6.2.1+r239849-1.4" from the software distribution
"openSUSE Tumbleweed" with the following command example.

my_original=${my_build_dir}unchanged/test/ \
&& my_fixing=${my_build_dir}patched/test/ \
&& mkdir -p ${my_original} ${my_fixing} \
&& my_cc=/usr/bin/gcc-6 \
&& my_module=drivers/md/raid1.s \
&& git checkout next-20161014 \
&& make -j6 O="${my_original}" HOSTCC="${my_cc}" allmodconfig ${my_module} \
&& git checkout next_usage_of_seq_putc_in_md_raid_1 \
&& make -j6 O="${my_fixing}" HOSTCC="${my_cc}" allmodconfig ${my_module} \
&& diff -u "${my_original}${my_module}" "${my_fixing}${my_module}" > "${my_build_dir}assembler_code_comparison_$(date -I)_1.diff"


Unfortunately, the generated file got the size "311 KiB". I guess that
this is too big to send such a file around on the Linux mailing list.

Is this kind of assembler code comparison still useful to clarify relevant
differences further?

Regards,
Markus