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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: 1511583 ("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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fthain authored and gregkh committed Nov 28, 2023
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15 changes: 13 additions & 2 deletions include/linux/preempt.h
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Expand Up @@ -98,14 +98,21 @@ static __always_inline unsigned char interrupt_context_level(void)
return level;
}

/*
* These macro definitions avoid redundant invocations of preempt_count()
* because such invocations would result in redundant loads given that
* preempt_count() is commonly implemented with READ_ONCE().
*/

#define nmi_count() (preempt_count() & NMI_MASK)
#define hardirq_count() (preempt_count() & HARDIRQ_MASK)
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
# define softirq_count() (current->softirq_disable_cnt & SOFTIRQ_MASK)
# define irq_count() ((preempt_count() & (NMI_MASK | HARDIRQ_MASK)) | softirq_count())
#else
# define softirq_count() (preempt_count() & SOFTIRQ_MASK)
# define irq_count() (preempt_count() & (NMI_MASK | HARDIRQ_MASK | SOFTIRQ_MASK))
#endif
#define irq_count() (nmi_count() | hardirq_count() | softirq_count())

/*
* Macros to retrieve the current execution context:
Expand All @@ -118,7 +125,11 @@ static __always_inline unsigned char interrupt_context_level(void)
#define in_nmi() (nmi_count())
#define in_hardirq() (hardirq_count())
#define in_serving_softirq() (softirq_count() & SOFTIRQ_OFFSET)
#define in_task() (!(in_nmi() | in_hardirq() | in_serving_softirq()))
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
# define in_task() (!((preempt_count() & (NMI_MASK | HARDIRQ_MASK)) | in_serving_softirq()))
#else
# define in_task() (!(preempt_count() & (NMI_MASK | HARDIRQ_MASK | SOFTIRQ_OFFSET)))
#endif

/*
* The following macros are deprecated and should not be used in new code:
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