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Finn Thain
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[ Upstream commit87c3a5893e] Except on x86, preempt_count is always accessed with READ_ONCE(). Repeated invocations in macros like irq_count() produce repeated loads. These redundant instructions appear in various fast paths. In the one shown below, for example, irq_count() is evaluated during kernel entry if !tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id()). 0001ed0a <irq_enter_rcu>: 1ed0a: 4e56 0000 linkw %fp,#0 1ed0e: 200f movel %sp,%d0 1ed10: 0280 ffff e000 andil #-8192,%d0 1ed16: 2040 moveal %d0,%a0 1ed18: 2028 0008 movel %a0@(8),%d0 1ed1c: 0680 0001 0000 addil #65536,%d0 1ed22: 2140 0008 movel %d0,%a0@(8) 1ed26: 082a 0001 000f btst #1,%a2@(15) 1ed2c: 670c beqs 1ed3a <irq_enter_rcu+0x30> 1ed2e: 2028 0008 movel %a0@(8),%d0 1ed32: 2028 0008 movel %a0@(8),%d0 1ed36: 2028 0008 movel %a0@(8),%d0 1ed3a: 4e5e unlk %fp 1ed3c: 4e75 rts This patch doesn't prevent the pointless btst and beqs instructions above, but it does eliminate 2 of the 3 pointless move instructions here and elsewhere. On x86, preempt_count is per-cpu data and the problem does not arise presumably because the compiler is free to optimize more effectively. This patch was tested on m68k and x86. I was expecting no changes to object code for x86 and mostly that's what I saw. However, there were a few places where code generation was perturbed for some reason. The performance issue addressed here is minor on uniprocessor m68k. I got a 0.01% improvement from this patch for a simple "find /sys -false" benchmark. For architectures and workloads susceptible to cache line bounce the improvement is expected to be larger. The only SMP architecture I have is x86, and as x86 unaffected I have not done any further measurements. Fixes:15115830c8("preempt: Cleanup the macro maze a bit") Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0a403120a682a525e6db2d81d1a3ffcc137c3742.1694756831.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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