perf tools: Remove broken __no_tail_call attribute

The GCC specific __attribute__((optimize)) attribute does not what is
commonly expected and is explicitly recommended against using in
production code by the GCC people.

Unlike what is often expected, it doesn't add to the optimization flags,
but it fully replaces them, loosing any and all optimization flags
provided by the compiler commandline.

The only guaranteed upon means of inhibiting tail-calls is by placing a
volatile asm with side-effects after the call such that the tail-call simply
cannot be done.

Given the original commit wasn't specific on which calls were the problem, this
removal might re-introduce the problem, which can then be re-analyzed and cured
properly.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201028081123.GT2628@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index b9d4322e1e6551f3e987624073a08a9b3368b7f8..95c072b70d0e832f70a4ac07470bcd0d1ed46deb 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -27,18 +27,6 @@
 #define  __pure                __attribute__((pure))
 #endif
 #define  noinline      __attribute__((noinline))
-#ifdef __has_attribute
-#if __has_attribute(disable_tail_calls)
-#define __no_tail_call __attribute__((disable_tail_calls))
-#endif
-#endif
-#ifndef __no_tail_call
-#if GCC_VERSION > 40201
-#define __no_tail_call __attribute__((optimize("no-optimize-sibling-calls")))
-#else
-#define __no_tail_call
-#endif
-#endif
 #ifndef __packed
 #define __packed       __attribute__((packed))
 #endif

diff --git a/tools/include/linux/compiler.h b/tools/include/linux/compiler.h
index 2b3f7353e891f5ad8ab63aae9ef78dab4a23449e..d22a974372c0e212433a512611ddbef78c2c74f5 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -47,9 +47,6 @@
 #ifndef noinline
 #define noinline
 #endif
-#ifndef __no_tail_call
-#define __no_tail_call
-#endif
 
 /* Are two types/vars the same type (ignoring qualifiers)? */
 #ifndef __same_type

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c b/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
index 2491d167bf764f13d20a6f40e37068f0b7f30e6b..83638097c3bc19f8b9fc9e498432238548798aea 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static int unwind_entry(struct unwind_entry *entry, void *arg)
        return strcmp((const char *) symbol, funcs[idx]);
 }
 
-__no_tail_call noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__thread(struct thread *thread)
+noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__thread(struct thread *thread)
 {
        struct perf_sample sample;
        unsigned long cnt = 0;
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ __no_tail_call noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__thread(struct thread *thread)
 
 static int global_unwind_retval = -INT_MAX;
 
-__no_tail_call noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__compare(void *p1, void *p2)
+noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__compare(void *p1, void *p2)
 {
        /* Any possible value should be 'thread' */
        struct thread *thread = *(struct thread **)p1;
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ __no_tail_call noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__compare(void *p1, void *p2)
        return p1 - p2;
 }
 
-__no_tail_call noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__krava_3(struct thread *thread)
+noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__krava_3(struct thread *thread)
 {
        struct thread *array[2] = {thread, thread};
        void *fp = &bsearch;
@@ -164,12 +164,12 @@ __no_tail_call noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__krava_3(struct thread *thread)
        return global_unwind_retval;
 }
 
-__no_tail_call noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__krava_2(struct thread *thread)
+noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__krava_2(struct thread *thread)
 {
        return test_dwarf_unwind__krava_3(thread);
 }
 
-__no_tail_call noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__krava_1(struct thread *thread)
+noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__krava_1(struct thread *thread)
 {
        return test_dwarf_unwind__krava_2(thread);
 }