[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 <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/arch/i386/Makefile b/arch/i386/Makefile
index d3c0409d201cebcd2a258c1ab2bb1983959e5d23..bd2d53a9dd2b393ec7a1f3952f889e211fdd139e 100644 (file)
--- 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)