[PATCH 01/17] ARC: dw2 unwind: Elide generation of const propagated clones

From: Vineet Gupta
Date: Thu Dec 03 2015 - 07:41:45 EST


arc_unwind_core() is entry point into the actual dwarf unwinder and it
gets called by various kernel APIs which provide the unwinding context
(e.g. current task vs. a specific task, current pt_regs vs. some other
crash context's pt_regs...)

Currently multiple const propagated clones of arc_unwind_core() are
generated, which seems superfluous. The only performance critical call
is for perf callgrap unwinding, which being in a different compilation
unit, uses ths vanilla, non cp version anyways.

So prevent the clone functions generation

bloat-o-meter report

| add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 4/0 up/down: 40/-1152 (-1112)
| function old new delta
| save_stack_trace 4 16 +12
| save_stack_trace_tsk 4 14 +10
| get_wchan 4 14 +10
| show_stacktrace 40 48 +8
| arc_unwind_core.constprop 1152 - -1152

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arc/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arc/kernel/Makefile
index e7f3625a19b5..f90e5fd6d5c8 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@

# Pass UTS_MACHINE for user_regset definition
CFLAGS_ptrace.o += -DUTS_MACHINE='"$(UTS_MACHINE)"'
+CFLAGS_stacktrace.o += -fno-ipa-cp-clone

obj-y := arcksyms.o setup.o irq.o time.o reset.o ptrace.o process.o devtree.o
obj-y += signal.o traps.o sys.o troubleshoot.o stacktrace.o disasm.o clk.o
--
1.9.1

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