Re: [GIT pull] time(r) fixes for .25

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:44:07PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > @@ -174,6 +174,10 @@ static inline void timespec_add_ns(struct timespec *a, u64 ns)
> >  {
> >  	ns += a->tv_nsec;
> >  	while(unlikely(ns >= NSEC_PER_SEC)) {
> > +		/* The following asm() prevents the compiler from
> > +		 * optimising this loop into a modulo operation.  */
> > +		asm("" : "+r"(ns));
> > +
> 
> optimizing -> pessimizing or "optimizing" or explain that "optimized"
> version is slower than real version?
>...

In this case it's actually gcc's fault to ignore the unlikely(), so the 
optimization would have made the code slower at least on some 
architectures.

But more important, it resulted in build errors on i386 and some other 
32bit architectures.

The underlying (and unresolved) issue is that gcc expects libgcc to be 
available while the kernel does not link with libgcc on many platforms.

> 							Pavel

cu
Adrian

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