On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 12:45:53 +0530 Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com> wrote:
> On Friday 02 October 2015 04:55 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:24:20 +0530 Vineet Gupta
> > <vineet.gup...@synopsys.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > This came up when implementing HIHGMEM/PAE40 for ARC.
> >> > The kmap() / kmap_atomic() generated code seemed needlessly bloated due
> >> > to the way PageHighMem() macro is implemented.
> >> > It derives the exact zone for page and then does pointer subtraction
> >> > with first zone to infer the zone_type.
> >> > The pointer arithmatic in turn generates the code bloat.
> >> >
> >> > PageHighMem(page)
> >> > is_highmem(page_zone(page))
> >> > zone_off = (char *)zone - (char *)zone->zone_pgdat->node_zones
> >> >
> >> > Instead use is_highmem_idx() to work on zone_type available in page flags
> >> >
> >> > ----- Before -----
> >> > 80756348: mov_s r13,r0
> >> > 8075634a: ld_s r2,[r13,0]
> >> > 8075634c: lsr_s r2,r2,30
> >> > 8075634e: mpy r2,r2,0x2a4
> >> > 80756352: add_s r2,r2,0x80aef880
> >> > 80756358: ld_s r3,[r2,28]
> >> > 8075635a: sub_s r2,r2,r3
> >> > 8075635c: breq r2,0x2a4,80756378 <kmap+0x48>
> >> > 80756364: breq r2,0x548,80756378 <kmap+0x48>
> >> >
> >> > ----- After -----
> >> > 80756330: mov_s r13,r0
> >> > 80756332: ld_s r2,[r13,0]
> >> > 80756334: lsr_s r2,r2,30
> >> > 80756336: sub_s r2,r2,1
> >> > 80756338: brlo r2,2,80756348 <kmap+0x30>
> >> >
> >> > For x86 defconfig build (32 bit only) it saves around 900 bytes.
> >> > For ARC defconfig with HIGHMEM, it saved around 2K bytes.
> >> >
> >> > ---->8-------
> >> > ./scripts/bloat-o-meter x86/vmlinux-defconfig-pre
> >> > x86/vmlinux-defconfig-post
> >> > add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/36 up/down: 0/-934 (-934)
> >> > function old new delta
> >> > saveable_page 162 154 -8
> >> > saveable_highmem_page 154 146 -8
> >> > skb_gro_reset_offset 147 131 -16
> >> > ...
> >> > ...
> >> > __change_page_attr_set_clr 1715 1678 -37
> >> > setup_data_read 434 394 -40
> >> > mon_bin_event 1967 1927 -40
> >> > swsusp_save 1148 1105 -43
> >> > _set_pages_array 549 493 -56
> >> > ---->8-------
> >> >
> >> > e.g. For ARC kmap()
> >> >
> > is_highmem() is deranged. Can't we use a bit in zone->flags or
> > something?
>
> It won't be "a" bit since zone_type is an enum.
Yes it will!
static inline int is_highmem(struct zone *zone)
{
return test_bit(ZONE_HIGHMEM, &zone->flags);
}
> ...
>
> However this patch still is independent of that since we have struct page as
> starting point and zone_type is available from there directly w/o monkeying
> around
> with any zone structs.
yup.
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