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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
To: Sergey Bugaev <bugaevc@gmail.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] hurd: Microoptimize mmap ()
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 23:25:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230424212552.yticdmmbgxknh2as@begin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN9u=HcHkt0pggx9ps-oQfvWXnegsrhoW9DQABP8yrPEp4ZFkQ@mail.gmail.com>

Sergey Bugaev, le mar. 25 avril 2023 00:09:58 +0300, a ecrit:
> What I should rather look into is marking __hurd_fail and friends with
> __attribute__((cold)); that would take care of all the error branches
> everywhere automatically without having to mark things up.

Yes, that'd probably be great :)

> But I did a quick grep and found nothing using __attribute__((cold))
> yet, so I don't know what the right way of using it would be
> (and maybe it's not being used intentionally?).

It's probably that just nobody thought about adding it.

> I'm thinking it should probably go into misc/sys/cdefs.h as __COLD (or
> __attribute_cold?). Something like this:
> 
> #if __glibc_has_attribute (cold)
> #define __COLD __attribute__ ((cold))
> #else
> #define __COLD
> #endif
> 
> What do you think?

Yes! Though you can even make it

#if __GNUC_PREREQ (4,3) || __glibc_has_attribute (__cold__)

Samuel

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-24 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-23 21:55 [PATCH 1/4] hurd: Implement MAP_32BIT Sergey Bugaev
2023-04-23 21:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] hurd: Don't attempt to deallocate MACH_PORT_DEAD Sergey Bugaev
2023-04-24 20:44   ` Samuel Thibault
2023-04-23 21:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] hurd: Microoptimize mmap () Sergey Bugaev
2023-04-24 20:46   ` Samuel Thibault
2023-04-24 21:09     ` Sergey Bugaev
2023-04-24 21:25       ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2023-04-23 21:55 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] hurd: Implement prefer_map_32bit_exec tunable Sergey Bugaev
2023-04-24 20:48   ` Samuel Thibault
2023-04-24 20:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] hurd: Implement MAP_32BIT Samuel Thibault

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