Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Nadav Amit <> | Subject | [RFC 8/8] bitops: prevent compiler inline decision distortion | Date | Tue, 15 May 2018 07:11:15 -0700 |
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There are several places in the kernel in which there is a condition that is based on whether the input is known to be constant in compilation time. If it is, there are complex computations, which only take place during compilation time.
Although this scheme works correctly, when GCC computes the expected cost of this code in time and size, it disregards the fact that the computations of the "constant" case will not take place during runtime for the non-constant case. The cost of these functions is considered to be much higher. As a result, inline and branching decisions of the compiler are distorted. Specifically, functions are less likely to be inlined due to their preserved big size and execution time.
One of this cases is test_bit() which performs some computations for constant inputs.
The solution is to use __builtin_choose_expr() to detect whether the input is constant instead of a C condition. GCC evaluates the builtin earlier, which allows it to improve code-generation decisions.
This patch allows function such as bitmap_pos_to_ord() to be inlined. Its overall effect on size:
text data bss dec hex filename 18149165 10064176 2936832 31150173 1db505d ./vmlinux before 18149210 10064048 2936832 31150090 1db500a ./vmlinux after (-83)
Static text symbols: Before: 39643 After: 39632 (-11)
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h index 9f645ba57dbb..f1cb1c9125a9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h @@ -349,10 +349,10 @@ static __always_inline bool variable_test_bit(long nr, volatile const unsigned l static bool test_bit(int nr, const volatile unsigned long *addr); #endif -#define test_bit(nr, addr) \ - (__builtin_constant_p((nr)) \ - ? constant_test_bit((nr), (addr)) \ - : variable_test_bit((nr), (addr))) +#define test_bit(nr, addr) \ + __builtin_choose_expr(__builtin_constant_p((nr)), \ + constant_test_bit((nr), (addr)), \ + variable_test_bit((nr), (addr))) /** * __ffs - find first set bit in word -- 2.17.0
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