From 9ab34fe76114b9538bfcaf3a9d112dee0feb5f17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:21:29 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] enable unit-at-a-time optimisations for gcc4 Allow gcc4 compilers to optimize unit-at-a-time. This flag enables gcc to "see" the entire C file before making optimisation decisions such as inline, which results in gcc making better decisions. One of the immediate effects of this is that static functions that are used only once now get inlined. gcc 3.4 has this flag as well, however gcc 3.x have a problem with inlining and stacks and as a result, enabling this flag there would cause excessive and unacceptable stack use. This problem is fixed in the gcc 4.x series. The x86-64 architecture already enables this feature so it's well tested already. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Acked-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/i386/Makefile | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/i386/Makefile b/arch/i386/Makefile index d3c0409..bd2d53a 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Makefile +++ b/arch/i386/Makefile @@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ include $(srctree)/arch/i386/Makefile.cpu cflags-$(CONFIG_REGPARM) += $(shell if [ $(call cc-version) -ge 0300 ] ; then \ echo "-mregparm=3"; fi ;) -# Disable unit-at-a-time mode, it makes gcc use a lot more stack -# due to the lack of sharing of stacklots. -CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time) +# Disable unit-at-a-time mode on pre-gcc-4.0 compilers, it makes gcc use +# a lot more stack due to the lack of sharing of stacklots: +CFLAGS += $(shell if [ $(call cc-version) -lt 0400 ] ; then echo $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time); fi ;) CFLAGS += $(cflags-y) -- 2.7.4