x86/asm: Use -mskip-rax-setup if supported

GCC 5 added a compiler option, -mskip-rax-setup, for x86-64. It skips
setting up the RAX register when SSE is disabled and there are no
variable arguments passed in vector registers. (According to the x86_64
ABI, %al is used as a hidden register containing the number of vector
registers used).

Since the kernel doesn't pass vector registers to functions with
variable arguments, this option can be used to optimize the x86-64
kernel.

This GCC feature was suggested by Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>.
This is the corresponding kernel change using it.

For kernel v3.17:

      text   data    bss    dec       filename
  11455921 2204048 5853184 19513153   vmlinux #with -mskip-rax-setup
  11480079 2204048 5853184 19537311   vmlinux

For Kernel v4.0+ - custom config:

      text   data    bss    dec       filename
  10231778 3479800 16617472 30329050  vmlinux-gcc5+-mskip-rax-setup
  10268797 3547448 16621568 30437813  vmlinux

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 5ba2d9ce82dcb8f72d5184004756c1d917e8a3fe..40af1bac2b7dc1d975cb4c4497236270e48c72d1 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ else
        # Use -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 if supported.
        KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=3)
 
+       # Use -mskip-rax-setup if supported.
+       KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mskip-rax-setup)
+
         # FIXME - should be integrated in Makefile.cpu (Makefile_32.cpu)
         cflags-$(CONFIG_MK8) += $(call cc-option,-march=k8)
         cflags-$(CONFIG_MPSC) += $(call cc-option,-march=nocona)