* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([email protected]) wrote:
> Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >#define MARK_SYM(name) \
> > do { \
> > __label__ here; \
> > volatile static void *__mark_kprobe_##name \
> > asm (MARK_CALL_PREFIX#name) \
> > __attribute__((unused)) = &&here; \
> >here: \
> > do { } while(0); \
> > } while(0)
> >
> >Which fixes the problem. Some tests showed me that the compiler does not
> >unroll
> >an otherwise unrolled loop when this specific macro is called. (test done
> >with
> >-funroll-all-loops).
>
> Eh? I thought you wanted to avoid changing the generated code?
> Inhibiting loop unrolling could be a pretty large change...
>
>From what I see in 2.6.17/2.6.18 makefiles, only -OS and -O2 are generally
used by the build system (no -O3) and there is not use of -funroll-loops. I
guess it must not be so useful in this context.
Mathieu
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