Re: PROPOSAL: Extend inline asm syntax with size spec

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Wed Dec 26 2018 - 23:57:06 EST


Hi Peter,


On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 9:58 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 09:33:35PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Ok,
> >
> > with Segher's help I've been playing with his patch ontop of bleeding
> > edge gcc 9 and here are my observations. Please double-check me for
> > booboos so that they can be addressed while there's time.
> >
> > So here's what I see ontop of 4.19-rc7:
> >
> > First marked the alternative asm() as inline and undeffed the "inline"
> > keyword. I need to do that because of the funky games we do with
> > "inline" redefinitions in include/linux/compiler_types.h.
> >
> > And Segher hinted at either doing:
> >
> > asm volatile inline(...
> >
> > or
> >
> > asm volatile __inline__(...
> >
> > but both "inline" variants are defined as macros in that file.
> >
> > Which means we either need to #undef inline before using it in asm() or
> > come up with something cleverer.
>
> # git grep -e "\<__inline__\>" | wc -l
> 488
> # git grep -e "\<__inline\>" | wc -l
> 56
> # git grep -e "\<inline\>" | wc -l
> 69598
>
> And we already have scripts/checkpatch.pl:
>
> # Check for __inline__ and __inline, prefer inline
>
> Which suggests we do:
>
> git grep -l "\<__inline\(\|__\)\>" | while read file
> do
> sed -i -e 's/\<__inline\(\|__\)\>/inline/g' $file
> done
>
> and get it over with.


Do you have a plan to really do this?

This is a nice cleanup anyway.

I think the last minute of MW is
a good timing for the global replacement like this.




>
> Anyway, with the below patch, I get:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 17385183 5064780 1953892 24403855 1745f8f defconfig-build/vmlinux
> 17385678 5064780 1953892 24404350 174617e defconfig-build/vmlinux
>
> Which shows we inline more (look for asm_volatile for the actual
> changes).
>
>
> So yes, this seems like something we could work with.
>
> ---
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> Documentation/translations/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches | 4 +--
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> arch/alpha/include/asm/bitops.h | 6 ++--
> arch/alpha/include/asm/compiler.h | 4 +--
> arch/alpha/include/asm/dma.h | 22 ++++++------
> arch/alpha/include/asm/floppy.h | 4 +--
> arch/alpha/include/asm/irq.h | 2 +-
> arch/alpha/include/asm/local.h | 4 +--
> arch/alpha/include/asm/smp.h | 2 +-
> arch/arm/mach-iop32x/include/mach/uncompress.h | 2 +-
> arch/arm/mach-iop33x/include/mach/uncompress.h | 2 +-
> arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/include/mach/uncompress.h | 2 +-
> arch/ia64/hp/common/sba_iommu.c | 2 +-
> arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c | 2 +-
> arch/ia64/include/asm/atomic.h | 8 ++---
> arch/ia64/include/asm/bitops.h | 34 +++++++++---------
> arch/ia64/include/asm/delay.h | 14 ++++----
> arch/ia64/include/asm/irq.h | 2 +-
> arch/ia64/include/asm/page.h | 2 +-
> arch/ia64/include/asm/sn/leds.h | 2 +-
> arch/ia64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 4 +--
> arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/rse.h | 12 +++----
> arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/swab.h | 6 ++--
> arch/ia64/oprofile/backtrace.c | 4 +--
> arch/m68k/include/asm/blinken.h | 2 +-
> arch/m68k/include/asm/checksum.h | 2 +-
> arch/m68k/include/asm/dma.h | 32 ++++++++---------
> arch/m68k/include/asm/floppy.h | 8 ++---
> arch/m68k/include/asm/nettel.h | 8 ++---
> arch/m68k/mac/iop.c | 14 ++++----
> arch/mips/include/asm/atomic.h | 16 ++++-----
> arch/mips/include/asm/checksum.h | 2 +-
> arch/mips/include/asm/dma.h | 20 +++++------
> arch/mips/include/asm/jazz.h | 2 +-
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> arch/mips/include/asm/string.h | 8 ++---
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> arch/parisc/include/asm/dma.h | 20 +++++------
> arch/parisc/include/asm/ide.h | 8 ++---
> arch/parisc/include/asm/irq.h | 2 +-
> arch/parisc/include/asm/spinlock.h | 12 +++----
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/atomic.h | 40 +++++++++++-----------
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/bitops.h | 28 +++++++--------
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma.h | 20 +++++------
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/edac.h | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/irq.h | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/local.h | 14 ++++----
> arch/sh/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 2 +-
> arch/sh/include/asm/processor_32.h | 4 +--
> arch/sh/include/cpu-sh3/cpu/dac.h | 6 ++--
> arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 14 ++++----
> arch/x86/um/asm/checksum.h | 4 +--
> arch/x86/um/asm/checksum_32.h | 4 +--
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> arch/xtensa/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 4 +--
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> drivers/atm/idt77252.c | 6 ++--
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> drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-ioctl.c | 2 +-
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> drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunhme.c | 6 ++--
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> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/ieee80211.h | 6 ++--
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> include/acpi/platform/acintel.h | 2 +-
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> include/linux/ceph/messenger.h | 2 +-
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> include/linux/hdlc.h | 4 +--
> include/linux/inetdevice.h | 8 ++---
> include/linux/parport.h | 4 +--
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> include/net/llc_conn.h | 4 +--
> include/net/llc_s_ev.h | 2 +-
> include/net/netrom.h | 8 ++---
> include/net/scm.h | 14 ++++----
> include/net/udplite.h | 2 +-
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> include/net/xfrm.h | 18 +++++-----
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> include/uapi/linux/map_to_7segment.h | 2 +-
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> net/appletalk/ddp.c | 2 +-
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> net/core/scm.c | 2 +-
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> net/lapb/lapb_iface.c | 4 +--
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> scripts/genksyms/keywords.c | 4 +--
> scripts/kernel-doc | 4 +--
> sound/sparc/amd7930.c | 6 ++--
> 165 files changed, 547 insertions(+), 547 deletions(-)


--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada