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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 04:31:11PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:

> From some experiments it looks like clang, in difference to gcc, does
> not treat constant values passed as parameters to inline function as
> constants.

Then you're also missing a heap of optimizations in code like
rb_erase_augmented() which is specifically constructed to take advantage
of constant propagation like that.

Other sites where we expect that to happen is __mutex_lock_common(),
__update_load_sum() and a bunch of others. There isn't strictly a bug
here, but not doing that constant propagation will still result in shit
code gen.