Hi!

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 04:40:16PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> >It cannot optimise it because it does not know shift < 32.  The code
> >below is incorrect for shift equal to 32, fwiw.
> 
> Is there a way to tell it ?

Sure, for example the &31 should work (but it doesn't, with the GCC
version you used -- which version is that?)

> >What does the compiler do for just
> >
> >static __always_inline u64 vdso_shift_ns(u64 ns, unsigned long shift)
> >     return ns >> (shift & 31);
> >}
> >
> 
> Worse:

I cannot make heads or tails of all that branch spaghetti, sorry.

>  73c: 55 8c 06 fe     clrlwi  r12,r12,27
>  740: 7f c8 f0 14     addc    r30,r8,r30
>  744: 7c c6 4a 14     add     r6,r6,r9
>  748: 7c c6 e1 14     adde    r6,r6,r28
>  74c: 34 6c ff e0     addic.  r3,r12,-32
>  750: 41 80 00 70     blt     7c0 <__c_kernel_clock_gettime+0x114>

This branch is always true.  Hrm.


Segher

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