Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Rasmus Villemoes <> | Subject | [PATCH v2/resend] tracing: eliminate const char[] auto variables | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:34:27 +0100 |
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Automatic const char[] variables cause unnecessary code generation. For example, the this_mod variable leads to
3f04: 48 b8 5f 5f 74 68 69 73 5f 6d movabs $0x6d5f736968745f5f,%rax # __this_m 3f0e: 4c 8d 44 24 02 lea 0x2(%rsp),%r8 3f13: 48 8d 7c 24 10 lea 0x10(%rsp),%rdi 3f18: 48 89 44 24 02 mov %rax,0x2(%rsp) 3f1d: 4c 89 e9 mov %r13,%rcx 3f20: b8 65 00 00 00 mov $0x65,%eax # e 3f25: 48 c7 c2 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%rdx 3f28: R_X86_64_32S .rodata.str1.1+0x18d 3f2c: be 48 00 00 00 mov $0x48,%esi 3f31: c7 44 24 0a 6f 64 75 6c movl $0x6c75646f,0xa(%rsp) # odul 3f39: 66 89 44 24 0e mov %ax,0xe(%rsp)
i.e., the string gets built on the stack at runtime. Similar code can be found for the other instances I'm replacing here. Putting the string in .rodata reduces the combined .text+.rodata size and saves time and stack space at runtime.
The simplest fix, and what I've done for the this_mod case, is to just make the variable static.
However, for the "<faulted>" case where the same string is used twice, that prevents the linker from merging those two literals, so instead use a macro - that also keeps the two instances automatically in sync (instead of only the compile-time strlen expression).
Finally, for the two runs of spaces, just use variables initialized with string literals; the linker (at least for x86) will reuse the tail of the longer for the shorter string.
x86-64 defconfig + CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER:
$ scripts/stackdelta /tmp/stackusage.{0,1} ./kernel/trace/ftrace.c ftrace_mod_callback 152 136 -16 ./kernel/trace/trace.c trace_default_header 56 32 -24 ./kernel/trace/trace.c tracing_mark_raw_write 96 72 -24 ./kernel/trace/trace.c tracing_mark_write 104 80 -24
bloat-o-meter
add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/4 up/down: 14/-258 (-244) Function old new delta this_mod - 14 +14 ftrace_mod_callback 577 542 -35 tracing_mark_raw_write 444 374 -70 tracing_mark_write 616 540 -76 trace_default_header 600 523 -77
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> --- Hi Steven
I didn't get any response to this; just let me know if you don't want this kind of microoptimization patches.
v2: update change log with stack and code delta info.
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 13 ++++++------- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index fa79323331b2..e232dd31cfae 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -3879,7 +3879,7 @@ static int ftrace_hash_move_and_update_ops(struct ftrace_ops *ops, static bool module_exists(const char *module) { /* All modules have the symbol __this_module */ - const char this_mod[] = "__this_module"; + static const char this_mod[] = "__this_module"; char modname[MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN + sizeof(this_mod) + 2]; unsigned long val; int n; diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 21153e64bf1c..a7f7d141c902 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -3556,8 +3556,8 @@ static void print_func_help_header_irq(struct trace_buffer *buf, struct seq_file unsigned int flags) { bool tgid = flags & TRACE_ITER_RECORD_TGID; - const char tgid_space[] = " "; - const char space[] = " "; + const char *tgid_space = " "; + const char *space = " "; print_event_info(buf, m); @@ -6304,13 +6304,13 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, struct ring_buffer *buffer; struct print_entry *entry; unsigned long irq_flags; - const char faulted[] = "<faulted>"; ssize_t written; int size; int len; /* Used in tracing_mark_raw_write() as well */ -#define FAULTED_SIZE (sizeof(faulted) - 1) /* '\0' is already accounted for */ +#define FAULTED_STR "<faulted>" +#define FAULTED_SIZE (sizeof(FAULTED_STR) - 1) /* '\0' is already accounted for */ if (tracing_disabled) return -EINVAL; @@ -6342,7 +6342,7 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, len = __copy_from_user_inatomic(&entry->buf, ubuf, cnt); if (len) { - memcpy(&entry->buf, faulted, FAULTED_SIZE); + memcpy(&entry->buf, FAULTED_STR, FAULTED_SIZE); cnt = FAULTED_SIZE; written = -EFAULT; } else @@ -6383,7 +6383,6 @@ tracing_mark_raw_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, struct ring_buffer_event *event; struct ring_buffer *buffer; struct raw_data_entry *entry; - const char faulted[] = "<faulted>"; unsigned long irq_flags; ssize_t written; int size; @@ -6423,7 +6422,7 @@ tracing_mark_raw_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, len = __copy_from_user_inatomic(&entry->id, ubuf, cnt); if (len) { entry->id = -1; - memcpy(&entry->buf, faulted, FAULTED_SIZE); + memcpy(&entry->buf, FAULTED_STR, FAULTED_SIZE); written = -EFAULT; } else written = cnt; -- 2.20.1
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