kbuild: drop support for CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3

The difference in most compilers between `-O3` and `-O2` is mostly down
to whether loops with statically determinable trip counts are fully
unrolled vs unrolled to a multiple of SIMD width.

This patch is effectively a revert of
commit 15f5db60a137 ("kbuild,arc: add
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 for ARC") without re-adding
ARCH_CFLAGS

Ever since
commit cfdbc2e16e65 ("ARC: Build system: Makefiles, Kconfig, Linker
script")
ARC has been built with -O3, though the reason for doing so was not
specified in inline comments or the commit message. This commit does not
re-add -O3 to arch/arc/Makefile.

Folks looking to experiment with `-O3` (or any compiler flag for that
matter) may pass them along to the command line invocation of make:

$ make KCFLAGS=-O3

Code that looks to re-add an explicit Kconfig option for `-O3` should
provide:
1. A rigorous and reproducible performance profile of a reasonable
   userspace workload that demonstrates a hot loop in the kernel that
   would benefit from `-O3` over `-O2`.
2. Disassembly of said loop body before and after.
3. Provides stats on terms of increase in file size.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/CA+55aFz2sNBbZyg-_i8_Ldr2e8o9dfvdSfHHuRzVtP2VMAUWPg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index c7900e8975f1..1b4d8acc3def 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1401,13 +1401,6 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
 	  with the "-O2" compiler flag for best performance and most
 	  helpful compile-time warnings.
 
-config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3
-	bool "Optimize more for performance (-O3)"
-	depends on ARC
-	help
-	  Choosing this option will pass "-O3" to your compiler to optimize
-	  the kernel yet more for performance.
-
 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
 	bool "Optimize for size (-Os)"
 	help