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Miroslav Benes committed 43bd3a95c98
kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled GCC 9 introduces a new option, -flive-patching. It disables certain optimizations which could make a compilation unsafe for later live patching of the running kernel. The option is used only if CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled and $(CC) supports it. Performance impact of the option was measured on three different Intel machines - two bigger NUMA boxes and one smaller UMA box. Kernel intensive (IO, scheduling, networking) benchmarks were selected, plus a set of HPC workloads from NAS Parallel Benchmark. The tests were done on upstream kernel 5.0-rc8 with openSUSE Leap 15.0 userspace. The majority of the tests is unaffected. The only significant exception is the scheduler section which suffers 1-3% degradation. Evaluated-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>