From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: "gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
Sriraman Tallam <tmsriram@google.com>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH x86_64] Optimize access to globals in "-fpie -pie" builds with copy relocations
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOq1iw9NPfWeXa9F2xqBr7zGAXHNFN7Lgd3zmX3pLZZSYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFULd4Z=WaenYMr=Ke1QLQAq4bVQpkOD_Wt3nW4w9F71fuaPAw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:40 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>>> Ping.
>>>>> Ping.
>>>>>> Ping.
>>>>>>> Ping.
>>>
>>> It would probably help reviewers if you pointed to actual path
>>> submission [1], which unfortunately contains the explanation in the
>>> patch itself [2], which further explains that this functionality is
>>> currently only supported with gold, patched with [3].
>>>
>>> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-09/msg00645.html
>>> [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-09/txt2CHtu81P1O.txt
>>> [3] https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-05/msg00092.html
>>>
>>> After a bit of the above detective work, I think that new gcc option
>>> is not necessary. The configure should detect if new functionality is
>>> supported in the linker, and auto-configure gcc to use it when
>>> appropriate.
>>
>> I think GCC option is needed since one can use -fuse-ld= to
>> change linker.
>
> IMO, nobody will use this highly special x86_64-only option. It would
> be best for gnu-ld to reach feature parity with gold as far as this
> functionality is concerned. In this case, the optimization would be
> auto-configured, and would fire automatically, without any user
> intervention.
I will implement it in ld after its support is checked into GCC.
--
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-02 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-02 19:19 Uros Bizjak
2014-12-02 19:39 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-02 19:40 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-02 20:01 ` Uros Bizjak
2014-12-02 20:43 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2014-12-02 20:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-12-02 22:14 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-02 23:21 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-03 13:47 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-03 15:01 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-03 21:35 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-04 12:44 ` Uros Bizjak
2014-12-04 16:46 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-04 19:32 ` Uros Bizjak
2015-02-03 19:25 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-03 19:26 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-03 19:36 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-02-03 21:20 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-03 21:29 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-03 21:36 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-03 22:03 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-03 22:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-02-04 1:16 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 18:27 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-04 18:31 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-02-04 18:38 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 18:42 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-02-04 18:45 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 18:51 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-04 18:57 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 21:53 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-04 22:37 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 22:47 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2015-02-04 23:10 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 23:29 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-05 16:57 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2015-02-05 18:54 ` Richard Henderson
2015-02-05 19:01 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-05 19:59 ` Richard Henderson
2015-02-05 22:05 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-05 22:47 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-05 22:48 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-06 16:25 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-27 23:39 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-27 23:46 ` H.J. Lu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-12-04 22:19 Dominique Dhumieres
2014-12-04 23:54 ` H.J. Lu
2014-05-15 18:34 Sriraman Tallam
2014-05-19 18:11 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-06-09 22:55 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-06-21 0:17 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-06-26 17:55 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-07-11 17:42 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-09-02 18:15 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-09-02 20:40 ` Richard Henderson
2014-09-03 7:25 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2014-09-08 22:19 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-09-19 21:11 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-09-29 17:57 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-10-06 20:43 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-11-10 23:35 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-12-02 18:01 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-12-02 19:06 ` H.J. Lu
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