From: "Nysal Jan K.A" <ny...@linux.ibm.com>
On architectures where ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
is not selected, sync_core_before_usermode() is a no-op.
In membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode() the compiler does not
eliminate redundant branches and the load of mm->membarrier_state
for this case as the atomic_read() cannot be optimized away.
Here's a snippet of the code generated for finish_task_switch() on powerpc:
1b786c: ld r26,2624(r30) # mm = rq->prev_mm;
.......
1b78c8: cmpdi cr7,r26,0
1b78cc: beq cr7,1b78e4 <finish_task_switch+0xd0>
1b78d0: ld r9,2312(r13) # current
1b78d4: ld r9,1888(r9) # current->mm
1b78d8: cmpd cr7,r26,r9
1b78dc: beq cr7,1b7a70 <finish_task_switch+0x25c>
1b78e0: hwsync
1b78e4: cmplwi cr7,r27,128
.......
1b7a70: lwz r9,176(r26) # atomic_read(&mm->membarrier_state)
1b7a74: b 1b78e0 <finish_task_switch+0xcc>
This was found while analyzing "perf c2c" reports on kernels prior
to commit c1753fd02a00 ("mm: move mm_count into its own cache line")
where mm_count was false sharing with membarrier_state.
There is a minor improvement in the size of finish_task_switch().
The following are results from bloat-o-meter:
GCC 7.5.0:
----------
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-32 (-32)
Function old new delta
finish_task_switch 884 852 -32
GCC 12.2.1:
-----------
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-32 (-32)
Function old new delta
finish_task_switch.isra 852 820 -32
LLVM 17.0.6:
------------
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-36 (-36)
Function old new delta
rt_mutex_schedule 120 104 -16
finish_task_switch 792 772 -20
Signed-off-by: Nysal Jan K.A <ny...@linux.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/sched/mm.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/mm.h b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
index 07bb8d4181d7..042e60ab853a 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
@@ -540,6 +540,8 @@ enum {
static inline void membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode(struct mm_struct
*mm)
{
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE))
+ return;
if (current->mm != mm)
return;
if (likely(!(atomic_read(&mm->membarrier_state) &
--
2.35.3
