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x86/hweight: Use asm_inline() instead of asm()
authorUros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:38:45 +0000 (13:38 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:26:58 +0000 (11:26 +0100)
commit21fe2514849bb4de05fbd098e311a87de6a62d4b
treeb69129f4c6ba9cdf0d7ab63508bba676eae3d7a2
parent194a613088a8c9dae300dfb08433287cee803e8d
x86/hweight: Use asm_inline() instead of asm()

Use asm_inline() to instruct the compiler that the size of asm()
is the minimum size of one instruction, ignoring how many instructions
the compiler thinks it is. ALTERNATIVE macro that expands to several
pseudo directives causes instruction length estimate to count
more than 20 instructions.

bloat-o-meter reports slight reduction of the code size
for x86_64 defconfig object file, compiled with gcc-14.2:

  add/remove: 6/12 grow/shrink: 59/50 up/down: 3389/-3560 (-171)
  Total: Before=22734393, After=22734222, chg -0.00%

where 29 instances of code blocks involving POPCNT now gets inlined,
resulting in the removal of several functions:

  format_is_yuv_semiplanar.part.isra            41       -     -41
  cdclk_divider                                 69       -     -69
  intel_joiner_adjust_timings                  140       -    -140
  nl80211_send_wowlan_tcp_caps                 369       -    -369
  nl80211_send_iftype_data                     579       -    -579
  __do_sys_pidfd_send_signal                   809       -    -809

One noticeable change is:

  pcpu_page_first_chunk                       1075    1060     -15

Where the compiler now inlines 4 more instances of POPCNT insns,
but still manages to compile to a function with smaller code size.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312123905.149298-3-ubizjak@gmail.com
arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h