[PATCH v18 11/15] block: Fix bio_flagged() so that gcc can better optimise it

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
	Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v18 11/15] block: Fix bio_flagged() so that gcc can better optimise it
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:07:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230314220757.3827941-12-dhowells@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230314220757.3827941-1-dhowells@redhat.com>

Fix bio_flagged() so that multiple instances of it, such as:

	if (bio_flagged(bio, BIO_PAGE_REFFED) ||
	    bio_flagged(bio, BIO_PAGE_PINNED))

can be combined by the gcc optimiser into a single test in assembly
(arguably, this is a compiler optimisation issue[1]).

The missed optimisation stems from bio_flagged() comparing the result of
the bitwise-AND to zero.  This results in an out-of-line bio_release_page()
being compiled to something like:

   <+0>:     mov    0x14(%rdi),%eax
   <+3>:     test   $0x1,%al
   <+5>:     jne    0xffffffff816dac53 <bio_release_pages+11>
   <+7>:     test   $0x2,%al
   <+9>:     je     0xffffffff816dac5c <bio_release_pages+20>
   <+11>:    movzbl %sil,%esi
   <+15>:    jmp    0xffffffff816daba1 <__bio_release_pages>
   <+20>:    jmp    0xffffffff81d0b800 <__x86_return_thunk>

However, the test is superfluous as the return type is bool.  Removing it
results in:

   <+0>:     testb  $0x3,0x14(%rdi)
   <+4>:     je     0xffffffff816e4af4 <bio_release_pages+15>
   <+6>:     movzbl %sil,%esi
   <+10>:    jmp    0xffffffff816dab7c <__bio_release_pages>
   <+15>:    jmp    0xffffffff81d0b7c0 <__x86_return_thunk>

instead.

Also, the MOVZBL instruction looks unnecessary[2] - I think it's just
're-booling' the mark_dirty parameter.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108370 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108371 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167391056756.2311931.356007731815807265.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6
---
 include/linux/bio.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index d766be7152e1..d9d6df62ea57 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static inline void bio_cnt_set(struct bio *bio, unsigned int count)
 
 static inline bool bio_flagged(struct bio *bio, unsigned int bit)
 {
-	return (bio->bi_flags & (1U << bit)) != 0;
+	return bio->bi_flags & (1U << bit);
 }
 
 static inline void bio_set_flag(struct bio *bio, unsigned int bit)

