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Message-ID: <Y7/xKbOZYztcqz2b@FVFF77S0Q05N>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:38:17 +0000
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
        lenb@...nel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mhiramat@...nel.org,
        ndesaulniers@...gle.com, ojeda@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com, revest@...omium.org,
        robert.moore@...el.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, will@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Compiler attributes: GCC function alignment
 workarounds

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 06:27:53PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 2:58 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell, GCC doesn't respect '-falign-functions=N':
> > >
> > > * When the __weak__ attribute is used
> > >
> > >   GCC seems to forget the alignment specified by '-falign-functions=N',
> > >   but will respect the '__aligned__(N)' function attribute. Thus, we can
> > >   work around this by explciitly setting the alignment for weak
> > >   functions.
> > >
> > > * When the __cold__ attribute is used
> > >
> > >   GCC seems to forget the alignment specified by '-falign-functions=N',
> > >   and also doesn't seem to respect the '__aligned__(N)' function
> > >   attribute. The only way to work around this is to not use the __cold__
> > >   attibute.
> > 
> > If you happen to have a reduced case, then it would be nice to link it
> > in the commit. A bug report to GCC would also be nice.
> > 
> > I gave it a very quick try in Compiler Explorer, but I couldn't
> > reproduce it, so I guess it depends on flags, non-trivial functions or
> > something else.
> 
> So having spent today coming up with tests, it turns out it's not quite as I
> described above, but in a sense worse. I'm posting a summary here for
> posterity; I'll try to get this to compiler folk shortly.

I've added the cold bits to an existing ticket:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88345

I have not been able to reproduce the issue with __weak__, so I'll go dig into
that some more; it's likely I was mistaken there.

Thanks,
Mark.

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