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kbuild: drop support for CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
authorNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 21:04:07 +0000 (14:04 -0700)
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:17:59 +0000 (21:17 +0900)
commita6036a41bffba3d5007e377483b425d470ad8042
tree5e2922a9b7700c8c702df80b7d6d0272996d6b1c
parent5439d4d4dcee548b1ad984c293225c1668045ad2
kbuild: drop support for CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3

The difference in most compilers between `-O3` and `-O2` is mostly down
to whether loops with statically determinable trip counts are fully
unrolled vs unrolled to a multiple of SIMD width.

This patch is effectively a revert of
commit 15f5db60a137 ("kbuild,arc: add
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 for ARC") without re-adding
ARCH_CFLAGS

Ever since
commit cfdbc2e16e65 ("ARC: Build system: Makefiles, Kconfig, Linker
script")
ARC has been built with -O3, though the reason for doing so was not
specified in inline comments or the commit message. This commit does not
re-add -O3 to arch/arc/Makefile.

Folks looking to experiment with `-O3` (or any compiler flag for that
matter) may pass them along to the command line invocation of make:

$ make KCFLAGS=-O3

Code that looks to re-add an explicit Kconfig option for `-O3` should
provide:
1. A rigorous and reproducible performance profile of a reasonable
   userspace workload that demonstrates a hot loop in the kernel that
   would benefit from `-O3` over `-O2`.
2. Disassembly of said loop body before and after.
3. Provides stats on terms of increase in file size.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/CA+55aFz2sNBbZyg-_i8_Ldr2e8o9dfvdSfHHuRzVtP2VMAUWPg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
15 files changed:
Makefile
arch/arc/configs/axs101_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/axs103_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/axs103_smp_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/haps_hs_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/haps_hs_smp_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/hsdk_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/nsim_700_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/nsimosci_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/nsimosci_hs_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/nsimosci_hs_smp_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/tb10x_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/vdk_hs38_defconfig
arch/arc/configs/vdk_hs38_smp_defconfig
init/Kconfig