linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: inline more exit handlers in vmx.c

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Message-ID: <a75d04e1-cfd6-fa2e-6120-1f3956e14153@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:25:34 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: inline more exit handlers in
 vmx.c

On 24/09/19 03:00, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Before and after this specific commit there is a difference with gcc 8.3.
> 
> full patchset applied
> 
>  753699   87971    9616  851286   cfd56 build/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
> 
> git revert
> 
>  753739   87971    9616  851326   cfd7e  build/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
> 
> git reset --hard HEAD^
> 
>  753699   87971    9616  851286   cfd56  build/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
> 
> git revert
> 
>  753739   87971    9616  851326   cfd7e  build/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko

So it's forty bytes.  I think we can leave this out.

Paolo