[PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Switch to generic WARN_ON()/BUG_ON()
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Fri Oct 12 11:23:39 EST 2007
Olof Johansson writes:
> Not using the ppc-specific WARN_ON/BUG_ON constructs actually saves about
> 4K text on a ppc64_defconfig. The main reason seems to be that prepping
> the arguments to the conditional trap instructions is more work than
> just doing a compare and branch.
It might be more instructions but it takes fewer cycles, I would
expect. Do you have the actual instruction sequences to compare?
Paul.
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