Re: [PATCH -v2] x86/hweight: Get rid of the special calling convention

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 07:23:13PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So what was wrong with using the normal thunk_*.S wrappers for the
> calls? That would allow you to use the alternative() stuff which does
> generate smaller code.

Yeah, so a full allyesconfig vmlinux gives ~22K .text size increase:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
85391772        105899159       70717440        262008371       f9dee33 vmlinux 	before
85413991        105899223       70746112        262059326       f9eb53e vmlinux		after
--------
   22219

I guess I better try the thunk stuff, might make it smaller.

Also, in the next version I'll split out the static_cpu_has() move into
a separate patch, as you requested on IRC.

Thanks.

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