On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:47:49 +0100 Marc Zyngier <marc.zyng...@arm.com> wrote:
> > -static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, free_page_t
> > put_new_page,
> > - unsigned long private, struct page *page, int force,
> > - enum migrate_mode mode)
> > +static noinline int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
> > + free_page_t put_new_page,
> > + unsigned long private, struct page *page,
> > + int force, enum migrate_mode mode)
> > {
> > int rc = 0;
> > int *result = NULL;
> >
>
> Ouch. That's really ugly. And on 32bit ARM, we end-up spilling half of
> the parameters on the stack, which is not going to help performance
> either (not that this would be useful on 32bit ARM anyway...).
>
> Any chance you could make this dependent on some compiler detection
> mechanism?
With my arm compiler (gcc-4.4.4) the patch makes no difference -
unmap_and_move() isn't being inlined anyway.
How does this look?
Kevin, could you please retest? I might have fat-fingered something...
---
a/mm/migrate.c~mm-migrate-mark-unmap_and_move-noinline-to-avoid-ice-in-gcc-473-fix
+++ a/mm/migrate.c
@@ -901,10 +901,20 @@ out:
}
/*
+ * gcc-4.7.3 on arm gets an ICE when inlining unmap_and_move(). Work around
+ * it.
+ */
+#if GCC_VERSION == 40703 && defined(CONFIG_ARM)
+#define ICE_noinline noinline
+#else
+#define ICE_noinline
+#endif
+
+/*
* Obtain the lock on page, remove all ptes and migrate the page
* to the newly allocated page in newpage.
*/
-static noinline int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
+static ICE_noinline int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
free_page_t put_new_page,
unsigned long private, struct page *page,
int force, enum migrate_mode mode)
_
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