-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:04 AM
To: Steven Rostedt
Cc: [email protected]; Andrew Morton;
[email protected]; [email protected]; Ananiev,
Leonid I
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix WARN_ON / WARN_ON_ONCE regression
Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Holy crap! I wonder where else in the kernel gcc is doing this.
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> annotation which makes gcc consider writes to the variable relatively
expensive
I should underline that cache miss is a result of invalidating of cache
line with __warn_once in each other CPUs performed by hw for cache
coherence.
__warn_once is a common data. It is costly to test-and-modify it just in
SMP. But it is not costly to write to the variable in memory just after
reading it. As a compiler have understood source code.
A read-and-modify for common variable are performed under lock usually.
Leonid
Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Holy crap! I wonder where else in the kernel gcc is doing this. (of
> course I'm using gcc4 so I don't know). Is there another gcc
attribute
> to actually tell gcc that a variable is really mostly read only
(besides
> placing it in a mostly read only elf section)?
>
That would be nice, but I don't know of one (apart from "volatile",
which has its own downsides). Once could imagine an annotation which
makes gcc consider writes to the variable relatively expensive, so that
it avoids generating unnecessary/excessive writes.
J
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