On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 06:37:20PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 04:38:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > With CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES, the "if" macro converts the
> > conditional to an array index.  This can cause GCC to create horrible
> > code.  When there are nested ifs, the generated code uses register
> > values to encode branching decisions.
> > 
> > Make it easier for GCC to optimize by keeping the conditional as a
> > conditional rather than converting it to an integer.  This shrinks the
> > generated code quite a bit, and also makes the code sane enough for
> > objtool to understand.
> > 
> > Cc: rost...@goodmis.org
> > Cc: valentin.schnei...@arm.com
> > Cc: l...@amacapital.net
> > Cc: brge...@gmail.com
> > Cc: catalin.mari...@arm.com
> > Cc: mi...@kernel.org
> > Cc: dvlas...@redhat.com
> > Cc: will.dea...@arm.com
> > Cc: julien.thie...@arm.com
> > Cc: torva...@linux-foundation.org
> > Cc: dvyu...@google.com
> > Cc: b...@alien8.de
> > Cc: t...@linutronix.de
> > Cc: james.mo...@arm.com
> > Cc: l...@kernel.org
> > Cc: h...@zytor.com
> > Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190307174802.46fmpysxyo35hh43@treble
> 
> Missing "From" me.

Right, sorry, quilt eats that and I sometimes forget to fix up :/

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