Re: [PATCH] x86/vdso: include generic __lshrdi3 in 32-bit vDSO

From: Matthias Kaehlcke
Date: Mon Mar 18 2019 - 16:44:39 EST


Hi Peter,

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 06:16:04PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:09:37AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 3:29 PM Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 02:31:09PM -0700, 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built Linux wrote:
> > > > Is there a config I can set to reproduce this, in order to help
> > > > test?
> > >
> > > I encountered it with a Chrome OS specific configuration, but a
> > > defconfig should do.
> >
> > defconfig selects CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE=y. I needed to
> > select CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y to repro. My CI is simply
> > running defconfigs, which is why I didn't catch this.
>
> I suspect the right fix is to make clang use -Os and abolish that -Oz
> madness.

You have a point, enabling -Oz (aggressive optimization for size)
doesn't seem a good choice for the entire kernel.

I'll send a patch to change it (back) to -Os.

Matthias