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Re: Can shrink-wrapping ever move prologue past an ASM statement?
- From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat dot com>
- To: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech at suse dot cz>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 12:18:42 -0500
- Subject: Re: Can shrink-wrapping ever move prologue past an ASM statement?
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On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 11:37:35AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 11:22:34AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > Writing the asm with a clobber of the stack pointer causes all stack
> > > accesses to go via the frame pointer, which causes pretty horrible
> > > code.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, most (but not all) kernel stack accesses already
> > occur via the frame pointer anyway. Is that bad? Can you clarify what
> > you mean by horrible code?
>
> If you already have a frame pointer anyway it won't get much worse,
> sure :-)
>
> If you don't have one yet you will get one, and a stack frame, and
> all that boilerplate. You don't want to force that if you don't
> need it.
Ah. We're only clobbering the stack pointer when asm() has a call
instruction. In that case we need to save and setup the frame pointer
anyway. So I don't think it's a problem.
--
Josh