Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/asm/entry/32: Remove unnecessary optimization in stub32_clone

[Denys Vlasenko]

On 06/03/2015 06:38 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:58:50PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> Really swap arguments #4 and #5 in stub32_clone instead of "optimizing"
>> it into a move.
>>
>> Yes, tls_val is currently unused. Yes, on some CPUs XCHG is a little bit
>> more expensive than MOV. But a cycle or two on an expensive syscall like
>> clone() is way below noise floor, and this optimization is simply not worth
>> the obfuscation of logic.
> [...]
>> This is a resend.
>>
>> There was a patch by Josh Triplett
>> "x86: Opt into HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, for both 32-bit and 64-bit"
>> sent on May 11,
>> which does the same thing as part of a bigger cleanup.
>> He was supportive of this patch because of comments.
>> He will simply have to drop one hunk from his patch.
> 
> Strictly speaking, nothing needs this until clone starts paying
> attention to its tls argument, which only happens in my cleanup series
> that includes this change.  So what's the purpose of driving this patch
> separately?

You wanted my comments in this patch to go in:

On 04/22/2015 07:10 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> I do think my two-patch HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS series should go in fixing
> this, but I'd like to see the final version of Denys' comment added on
> top of it (with an update to the type and name of the tls argument to
> match the changes to sys_clone).

If your patch will go in first, I'll send a patch adding only the comment.

Since for now your patch did not make it yet, I'm submitting
a patch which adds both a comment and the insn change.

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vda

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