linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc: workaround clang codegen bug in dcbz

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:52:00 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        christophe.leroy@....fr, arnd@...db.de,
        kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: workaround clang codegen bug in dcbz

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 01:32:46PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> For the record:
> 
> https://godbolt.org/z/z57VU7
> 
> This seems consistent with what Michael found so I don't think a revert
> is entirely unreasonable.

Try this:

  https://godbolt.org/z/6_ZfVi

This matters in non-trivial loops, for example.  But all current cases
where such non-trivial loops are done with cache block instructions are
actually written in real assembler already, using two registers.
Because performance matters.  Not that I recommend writing code as
critical as memset in C with inline asm :-)


Segher