ca42563486
The percpu code mostly uses inline assembly. Using segment qualifiers
allows to use C code instead, which enables the compiler to perform
various optimizations (e.g. propagation of memory arguments). Convert
percpu read and write accessors to C code, so the memory argument can
be propagated to the instruction that uses this argument.
Some examples of propagations:
a) into sign/zero extensions:
the code improves from:
65 8a 05 00 00 00 00 mov %gs:0x0(%rip),%al
0f b6 c0 movzbl %al,%eax
to:
65 0f b6 05 00 00 00 movzbl %gs:0x0(%rip),%eax
00
and in a similar way for:
movzbl %gs:0x0(%rip),%edx
movzwl %gs:0x0(%rip),%esi
movzbl %gs:0x78(%rbx),%eax
movslq %gs:0x0(%rip),%rdx
movslq %gs:(%rdi),%rbx
b) into compares:
the code improves from:
65 8b 05 00 00 00 00 mov %gs:0x0(%rip),%eax
a9 00 00 0f 00 test $0xf0000,%eax
to:
65 f7 05 00 00 00 00 testl $0xf0000,%gs:0x0(%rip)
00 00 0f 00
and in a similar way for:
testl $0xf0000,%gs:0x0(%rip)
testb $0x1,%gs:0x0(%rip)
testl $0xff00,%gs:0x0(%rip)
cmpb $0x0,%gs:0x0(%rip)
cmp %gs:0x0(%rip),%r14d
cmpw $0x8,%gs:0x0(%rip)
cmpb $0x0,%gs:(%rax)
c) into other insns:
the code improves from:
1a355: 83 fa ff cmp $0xffffffff,%edx
1a358: 75 07 jne 1a361 <...>
1a35a: 65 8b 15 00 00 00 00 mov %gs:0x0(%rip),%edx
1a361:
to:
1a35a: 83 fa ff cmp $0xffffffff,%edx
1a35d: 65 0f 44 15 00 00 00 cmove %gs:0x0(%rip),%edx
1a364: 00
The above propagations result in the following code size
improvements for current mainline kernel (with the default config),
compiled with:
# gcc (GCC) 12.3.1 20230508 (Red Hat 12.3.1-1)
text data bss dec filename
25508862 4386540 808388 30703790 vmlinux-vanilla.o
25500922 4386532 808388 30695842 vmlinux-new.o
Co-developed-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004192404.31733-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
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Linux kernel
============
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.