Re: [PATCH] x86: Introduce ASM flags to bitops

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jul 27 2015 - 11:40:46 EST



* Uros Bizjak <uros_bizjak1@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch introduces GCC ASM flags to bitops. Instead of e.g.
>
> 136d7: 48 0f a3 3d 00 00 00 bt %rdi,0x0(%rip)
> 136de: 00
> 136df: 19 ff sbb %edi,%edi
> 136e1: 85 ff test %edi,%edi
> 136e3: 0f 95 c0 setne %al
>
> following code is generated:
>
> 13767: 48 0f a3 3d 00 00 00 bt %rdi,0x0(%rip)
> 1376e: 00
> 1376f: 0f 92 c0 setb %al
>
> Similar improvement can be seen in following code:
>
> 7a6c: 48 0f a3 11 bt %rdx,(%rcx)
> 7a70: 19 d2 sbb %edx,%edx
> 7a72: 85 d2 test %edx,%edx
> 7a74: 74 eb je 7a61
>
> which becomes:
>
> 7a8c: 48 0f a3 11 bt %rdx,(%rcx)
> 7a90: 73 ef jae 7a81
>
> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
> arch/x86/include/asm/signal.h | 6 ++++++
> arch/x86/include/asm/sync_bitops.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Nothing in your patch seems to be setting __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__, and the patch
does not seem to be mailed as part of a larger series ...

So how is this supposed to work?

Thanks,

Ingo
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