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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: add -freg-struct-return to CFLAGS
Date: 22 Feb 2007 12:23:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:23:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070222112328.GB10190@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070222083822.GB15068@elte.hu>

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:38:22AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Subject: [patch] x86: add -freg-struct-return to CFLAGS
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge suggested the use of -freg-struct-return, which does 
> structure-returns (such as when using pte_t) in registers instead of on 
> the stack.
> 
> that is indeed so, and this option reduced the kernel size a bit:
> 
>     text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  4799506  543456 3760128 9103090  8ae6f2 vmlinux.before
>  4798117  543456 3760128 9101701  8ae185 vmlinux.after
> 
> the resulting kernel booted fine on my testbox. Lets go for it.

Ok I added it for now. Let's see what happens.

I guess people maintaining external Makefiles without Kbuild 
are in for a nasty surprise again though. Cannot be avoided unfortunately.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-22 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-22  1:28 -freg-struct-return? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-22  8:04 ` -freg-struct-return? Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-22  8:09   ` -freg-struct-return? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-22  8:15     ` -freg-struct-return? Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-22  8:30       ` -freg-struct-return? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-22  8:37       ` -freg-struct-return? Ingo Molnar
2007-02-22  8:38     ` [patch] x86: add -freg-struct-return to CFLAGS Ingo Molnar
2007-02-22 11:23       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-02-22 11:27         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-22 18:35       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-22 22:31         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-22  9:50     ` -freg-struct-return? Jakub Jelinek
2007-02-22 11:22     ` -freg-struct-return? Andi Kleen
2007-02-22 16:42       ` -freg-struct-return? H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-22 17:39         ` -freg-struct-return? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-22 18:36           ` -freg-struct-return? Andi Kleen
2007-02-22 18:48             ` -freg-struct-return? H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-23  0:21               ` -freg-struct-return? Andi Kleen
2007-02-22 18:56             ` -freg-struct-return? Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-22 19:12               ` -freg-struct-return? H. Peter Anvin

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