Re: optimization in kernel compile

2013-03-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:41:25 +0800, ishare said: Is it needed or must to compile fs and driver with -O2 option when compiling kernel ? It's not strictly mandatory to use -O2 (for a while, -Os was the default). There are a few places that for correctness, you *cannot* use -O0. For instance,

Re: optimization in kernel compile

2013-03-22 Thread ishare
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 09:55:53AM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:41:25 +0800, ishare said: Is it needed or must to compile fs and driver with -O2 option when compiling kernel ? It's not strictly mandatory to use -O2 (for a while, -Os was the default).

Re: optimization in kernel compile

2013-03-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:32:40 +0800, ishare said: are a few places that for correctness, you *cannot* use -O0. For instance, a few places where we use builtin_return_address() inside an inline (-O0 won't inline so builtin_return_address() ends up returning a pointer to a function when we

Re: optimization in kernel compile

2013-03-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:52:56 -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu said: No debug information is stripped by -O2. Debug information isn't emitted if you don't compile with -g. At one time, long ago (quite possibly literally before you were born for some of the younger readers on the list), gcc was

optimization in kernel compile

2013-03-21 Thread ishare
Is it needed or must to compile fs and driver with -O2 option when compiling kernel ? thanks! ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies