[PATCH v6 1/9] ppc64 (le): prepare for -mprofile-kernel

Fri Feb 5 08:47:56 AEDT 2016

On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:

> On arm/arm64, link register must be saved before any function call. So anyhow
> we will have to add something, 3 instructions at the minimum, like:
>    save lr
>    branch _mcount
>    restore lr
>    <prologue>
>    ...
>    <body>
>    ...

This means that we have at least two architectures that need one 
instruction before the mcount/mfentry call, and the rest of the prologue 
to follow afterwards. On x86, we don't need any "pre-prologue".

Persumably the corresponding opcodes have different sizes. This nicely 
demonstrates my point -- if this one-gcc-option-to-rule-them-all would 
exist, it needs to be generic enough to describe these kinds of 
constraints (who knows what other restrictions will pop up when exploring 
other, more exotic, architectures later).

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs