Re: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:17 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> El Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 11:30:07AM +0200 Peter Zijlstra ha dit:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 11:06:58AM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>>
>> > Yes, Chrome OS R67 (currently dev, soon beta) will ship a kernel built
>> > with Clang for multiple x86 Chromebooks.
>>
>> But there are still _known_ miscompilations....
>
> Our compiler team is looking into this (missing option
> -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks)

Do you know if anyone is looking into __builtin_constant_p()
optimization as well? We have a lot of uses of this gcc feature
in the kernel, and if I remember correctly, clang implements
this by basically always returning false for the cases we
are interested in.

In most cases, this is used to implement a fast-path for a helper
function, so not doing it the same way as gcc just results in
slower execution, but I assume we also have code that behaves
differently on clang compared to gcc because of this.

        Arnd