Mateusz Guzik 4ef4ac3601 device_cgroup: avoid access to ->i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission() ...

The routine gets called for every path component during lookup.
->i_mode is going to be cached on account of permission checks, while
->i_rdev is an area which is most likely cache-cold.

gcc 14.2 is kind enough to emit one branch:
	movzwl (%rbx),%eax
	mov    %eax,%edx
	and    $0xb000,%dx
	cmp    $0x2000,%dx
	je     11bc <inode_permission+0xec>

This patch is lazy in that I don't know if the ->i_rdev branch makes
any sense with the newly added mode check upfront. I am not changing any
semantics here though.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250416221626.2710239-3-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

2025-04-21 10:27:59 +02:00

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