Re: [PATCH] [RFT] crypto: aes-generic - turn off -ftree-pre and -ftree-sra

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 09:52:05PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> diff --git a/crypto/aes_generic.c b/crypto/aes_generic.c
> index ca554d57d01e..35f973ba9878 100644
> --- a/crypto/aes_generic.c
> +++ b/crypto/aes_generic.c
> @@ -1331,6 +1331,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_aes_set_key);
>  	f_rl(bo, bi, 3, k);	\
>  } while (0)
>  
> +#if __GNUC__ >= 7
> +/*
> + * Newer compilers try to optimize integer arithmetic more aggressively,
> + * which generally improves code quality a lot, but in this specific case
> + * ends up hurting more than it helps, in some configurations drastically
> + * so. This turns off two optimization steps that have been shown to
> + * lead to rather badly optimized code with gcc-7.
> + *
> + * See also https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83356
> + */
> +#pragma GCC optimize("-fno-tree-pre")
> +#pragma GCC optimize("-fno-tree-sra")

So do it only when UBSAN is enabled?  GCC doesn't have a particular
predefined macro for those (only for asan and tsan), but either the kernel
does have something already, or could have something added in the
corresponding Makefile.

	Jakub