Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] m68k/bitops: use __builtin_{clz,ctzl,ffs} to evaluate constant expressions

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 8:13 AM Vincent Mailhol
<mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The compiler is not able to do constant folding on "asm volatile" code.
>
> Evaluate whether or not the function argument is a constant expression
> and if this is the case, return an equivalent builtin expression.
>
> On an allyesconfig, with GCC 13.2.1, it saves roughly 8 KB.
>
>   $ size --format=GNU vmlinux.before vmlinux.after
>         text       data        bss      total filename
>     60446534   70972412    2289596  133708542 vmlinux.before
>     60429746   70978876    2291676  133700298 vmlinux.after

Still a win with gcc 9.5.0-1ubuntu1~22.04:

allyesconfig:

      text       data        bss      total filename
  58882250   72419706    2284004  133585960
vmlinux-v6.7-rc8-1-m68k-bitops-force-inlining
  58863570   72419546    2285860  133568976
vmlinux-v6.7-rc8-2-m68k-bitops-use-__builtin_clz,ctzl,ffs

So an even bigger win...

atari_defconfig:

      text       data        bss      total filename
   4117008    1579350     151680    5848038
vmlinux-v6.7-rc8-1-m68k-bitops-force-inlining
   4116940    1579534     151712    5848186
vmlinux-v6.7-rc8-2-m68k-bitops-use-__builtin_clz,ctzl,ffs

... but a small size increase here.


>
> Reference: commit fdb6649ab7c1 ("x86/asm/bitops: Use __builtin_ctzl()
> to evaluate constant expressions")

Please don't split lines containing tags.

> Link: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/fdb6649ab7c1
>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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