Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4 v4] ftrace/x86: Add save_regs for i386 functioncalls

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 15:53 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> lea is not typically faster than add, but in the case of Atom, it is
> done in an earlier pipeline stage (AGU instead of ALU) which means lea
> is faster if its inputs are already available as address expressions and
> is consumed by address expressions; the goal is to avoid the ALU->AGU
> forwarding latency.

Well, the question is, which is faster:

	lea 8(%esp), %esp
	addl $8, %esp

Basically, all we want to do is add 8 to the stack pointer. And this is
for the x86_32 version of whatever hardware is in use.

-- Steve


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