From: "Martin Liška" <mliska@suse.cz>
To: Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>
Cc: Qing Zhao <qing.zhao@oracle.com>, Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
gcc Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GCC options for kernel live-patching (Was: Add a new option to control inlining only on static functions)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <90c91045-cb9d-0bd2-fad3-d16426ceede6@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54a75932-201b-671c-0a63-d1a5d8d7b562@suse.cz>
@honza: PING
On 10/3/18 12:53 PM, Martin Liška wrote:
> On 10/3/18 11:04 AM, Jan Hubicka wrote:
>>>
>>> That was promised to be done by Honza Hubièka. He's very skilled in IPA optimizations and he's aware
>>> of optimizations that cause troubles for live-patching.
>>
>> :) I am not sure how skilful I am, but here is what I arrived to.
>
> Heh! Thanks for the analysis.
>
>>
>> We have transformations that are modeled as clonning, which are
>> - inlining (can't be disabled completely because of always inline, but -fno-inline
>> does most of stuff)
>> - cloning (disabled via -fno-ipa-cp)
>> - ipa-sra (-fno-ipa-sra)
>> - splitting (-fno-partial-inlining)
>> These should play well with Martin's tracking code
>
> I hope so!
>
>>
>> We propagate info about side effects of function:
>> - function attribute discovery (pure, const, nothrow, malloc)
>> Some of this can be disabled by -fno-ipa-pure-const, but not all
>> of it.
>
> Would it be possible to add option for the remaining ones?
>
> Nothrow does not have flag but it is obviously not a concern
>> for C++
>
> s/C++/C?
>
>> - ipa-pta (disabled by default, -fno-ipa-pta)
>> - ipa-reference (list of accessed/modified global vars), disable by -fno-ipa-refernece
>> - stack alignment requirements (no flag to disable)
>
> Would it be possible to add flag for it? Can you please point to a location where
> the optimization happen?
>
>> - inter-procedural register allocation (-fno-ipa-ra)
>>
>> We perform discovery of functions/variables with no address taken and
>> optimizations that are not valid otherwise such as duplicating them
>> or doing skipping them for alias analysis (no flag to disable)
>
> Can you be please more verbose here? What optimizations do you mean?
>
>>
>> Identical code folding merges function bodies that are semanticaly equivalent
>> and thus one can't patch one without patching another, -fno-ipa-icf
>
> Agree, I recommend disabling that.
>
>>
>> Unreachable code/variable removal may be concern too (no flag to disable)
>
> For functions that should be fine and handled by my script.
> For variables can be problem when a variable becomes alive But that
> should be extremely rare for live-patching.
>
>>
>> Write only global variable discovery (no flag to dosable)
>
> Similarly.
>
>>
>> Visibility changes with -flto and/or -fwhole-program
>>
>> We also have profile propagation (discovery of cuntions used only in cold regions,
>> but that I guess is only performance issue not correctness)
>> No flag to disable
>
> Hope these 2 does not happen for current Linux kernel.
>
> Martin
>
>>
>> Honza
>>
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Qing
>>>>
>>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-22 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 124+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-18 18:58 [PATCH][Middle-end][Version 3]Add a new option to control inlining only on static functions Qing Zhao
2018-09-18 23:18 ` Martin Sebor
2018-09-19 15:07 ` Qing Zhao
2018-09-21 15:19 ` [PATCH][Middle-end][Version 4]Add " Qing Zhao
2018-09-26 1:01 ` PING: " Qing Zhao
2018-09-26 11:20 ` Alexander Monakov
2018-09-26 12:49 ` Paolo Carlini
2018-09-26 14:43 ` Qing Zhao
2018-09-26 15:18 ` Alexander Monakov
2018-09-26 23:07 ` Qing Zhao
2018-09-26 23:54 ` Alexander Monakov
2018-09-27 5:16 ` Qing Zhao
2018-09-27 7:46 ` Richard Biener
2018-09-27 16:30 ` Qing Zhao
2018-09-27 8:55 ` Alexander Monakov
2018-09-27 8:58 ` Jan Hubicka
2018-09-27 11:12 ` Richard Biener
2018-09-26 13:24 ` Jason Merrill
2018-09-26 13:31 ` Richard Biener
2018-09-26 13:40 ` Jason Merrill
2018-09-26 14:46 ` Jeff Law
2018-09-26 14:58 ` Jason Merrill
2018-09-26 15:10 ` Jan Hubicka
2018-09-26 17:12 ` Qing Zhao
2018-09-26 17:22 ` Jan Hubicka
2018-09-26 21:36 ` Qing Zhao
2018-09-27 9:47 ` Jan Hubicka
2018-09-27 12:29 ` GCC options for kernel live-patching (Was: Add a new option to control inlining only on static functions) Martin Jambor
2018-09-27 16:40 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-01 17:14 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-02 8:38 ` Martin Jambor
2018-10-02 14:00 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-02 14:11 ` Martin Liška
2018-10-02 14:55 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-02 14:59 ` Martin Liška
2018-10-02 15:24 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-02 17:16 ` Martin Liška
2018-10-02 18:34 ` Richard Biener
2018-10-02 21:25 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-03 9:05 ` Martin Liška
2018-10-03 10:53 ` Martin Jambor
2018-10-03 16:11 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-04 13:20 ` Richard Biener
2018-10-18 19:36 ` [RFC] GCC support for live-patching Qing Zhao
2018-10-19 8:53 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2018-10-19 18:33 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-24 21:16 ` Alexandre Oliva
2018-10-19 14:25 ` Andi Kleen
2018-10-19 18:33 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-20 6:47 ` Andi Kleen
2018-10-22 13:07 ` Martin Jambor
2018-10-22 17:59 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-22 15:36 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-22 21:01 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-23 9:37 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-23 19:54 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-24 13:17 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-23 13:37 ` Nicolai Stange
2018-10-23 20:34 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-23 21:18 ` Nicolai Stange
2018-10-24 17:19 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-31 22:04 ` [RFC] [2nd version] " Qing Zhao
2018-10-31 22:08 ` [RFC] " Qing Zhao
2018-10-03 9:23 ` GCC options for kernel live-patching (Was: Add a new option to control inlining only on static functions) Jan Hubicka
2018-10-03 11:27 ` Martin Liška
2018-10-22 10:49 ` Martin Liška [this message]
[not found] ` <20181105095135.j3mnzox6rkktkoto@kam.mff.cuni.cz>
2018-11-05 22:26 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-07 14:22 ` Martin Liška
2018-11-07 14:27 ` Jan Hubicka
2018-11-07 14:44 ` Martin Liška
2018-11-08 14:59 ` Jan Hubicka
2018-11-09 15:33 ` [PATCH][RFC] Come up with -flive-patching master option Martin Liška
2018-11-09 17:43 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-10 8:51 ` Martin Liška
2018-11-12 2:28 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-12 8:53 ` Martin Liška
2018-11-12 22:29 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-13 17:49 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-13 19:18 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-11-13 21:16 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-14 15:03 ` Martin Liška
2018-11-14 17:54 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-15 8:41 ` Martin Liška
2018-11-15 15:41 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-16 1:36 ` [PATCH]Come " Qing Zhao
2018-11-16 15:26 ` Martin Liška
2018-11-16 15:51 ` Jan Hubicka
2018-11-16 16:25 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-16 16:05 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-19 8:12 ` Martin Liška
[not found] ` <F78B52B9-9F9A-4FA0-91BF-A33307D87AA8@oracle.c! ! om>
2018-11-19 15:53 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-20 12:10 ` Martin Liška
2018-11-20 15:32 ` [PATCH][Version 3]Come " Qing Zhao
2018-11-26 15:54 ` PING: " Qing Zhao
2018-11-30 17:04 ` [wwwdocs] [PATCH]introduce new -flive-patching master option into gcc9 Qing Zhao
2018-11-30 18:29 ` Jeff Law
2018-11-30 20:44 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-28 15:52 ` [PATCH][Version 3]Come up with -flive-patching master option Jan Hubicka
2018-11-28 20:25 ` Qing Zhao
2018-11-29 16:16 ` Qing Zhao
2018-12-05 23:16 ` Question on Disable no throw for " Qing Zhao
2019-01-02 11:47 ` Martin Liška
2019-01-09 11:28 ` Martin Liška
2018-12-07 13:07 ` [PATCH][Version 3]Come up with " Rainer Orth
2018-12-07 15:14 ` Qing Zhao
2019-04-10 14:46 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-04-10 19:24 ` Qing Zhao
2019-04-10 20:01 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-04-11 8:11 ` Richard Biener
2018-11-14 22:05 ` [PATCH][RFC] Come " Miroslav Benes
[not found] ` <20181110170343.g3k7j7rlydid3ahr@kam.mff.cuni.cz>
2018-11-12 9:29 ` Martin Liška
2018-11-09 18:38 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2018-11-10 8:48 ` Martin Liška
2018-10-03 12:18 ` GCC options for kernel live-patching (Was: Add a new option to control inlining only on static functions) Martin Jambor
2018-10-03 16:00 ` Qing Zhao
2018-10-23 12:34 ` Performance impact of disabling non-clone IPA optimizations for the Linux kernel (was: "GCC options for kernel live-patching") Nicolai Stange
2018-10-24 14:30 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-10-24 14:44 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-09-27 16:32 ` [PATCH][Middle-end][Version 4]Add a new option to control inlining only on static functions Qing Zhao
2018-09-26 22:42 ` Qing Zhao
2018-09-26 16:02 ` Qing Zhao
2018-09-26 15:52 ` Qing Zhao
2018-09-26 16:02 ` Jan Hubicka
2018-09-26 18:51 ` Qing Zhao
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