From: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>
To: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mainline kernel crashes, was Re: RFC: remove set_fs for m68k
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 20:55:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210912035552.GA23813@allandria.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c624213-6a4-799c-45e-a1be578dd5f@linux-m68k.org>
On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 10:51:21AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> However, I did notice that preempt_count_add() and preempt_count_sub() and
> the associated macros in linux/preempt.h produce very inefficient code in
> the interrupt fast path. Here's one example (there are others).
>
> 000323de <irq_enter_rcu>:
> 323de: 4e56 0000 linkw %fp,#0
> 323e2: 200f movel %sp,%d0
> 323e4: 0280 ffff e000 andil #-8192,%d0
> 323ea: 2040 moveal %d0,%a0
> 323ec: 2028 000c movel %a0@(12),%d0
> 323f0: 0680 0001 0000 addil #65536,%d0
> 323f6: 2140 000c movel %d0,%a0@(12)
> 323fa: 082a 0001 000f btst #1,%a2@(15)
> 32400: 670c beqs 3240e <irq_enter_rcu+0x30>
> 32402: 2028 000c movel %a0@(12),%d0
> 32406: 2028 000c movel %a0@(12),%d0
> 3240a: 2028 000c movel %a0@(12),%d0
> 3240e: 4e5e unlk %fp
> 32410: 4e75 rts
If I'm reading the code correctly, this is due to the use of READ_ONCE
in a bunch of places. I'm pretty sure that forces the compiler to
produce a separate read instruction each time even if the value isn't
used or the operation could have otherwise been optimized. Reading
the result it's obvious this isn't useful (particularly the three
discarded reads of the same address), but I think the compiler is
just doing what we told it to do. Each time we load %a0@(12), that's
one of these instances (I think it's the preempt count in this case).
Obviously every one of them would be safe to optimize given the
context, but the compiler doesn't know that.
I suspect this could be optimized by defining alternate versions of
some of the relevant macros that do nothing for cases like this.
However, it might be tricky to figure out ways to do this that
won't break something else.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-12 4:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-09 7:01 RFC: remove set_fs for m68k Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-09 7:01 ` [PATCH 1/7] m68k: document that access_ok is broken for !CONFIG_CPU_HAS_ADDRESS_SPACES Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-09 7:01 ` [PATCH 2/7] m68k: use BUILD_BUG for passing invalid sizes to get_user/put_user Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-09 7:01 ` [PATCH 3/7] m68k: remove the inline copy_{from,to}_user variants Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-09 7:01 ` [PATCH 4/7] m68k: remove the err argument to the get_user/put_user assembly helpers Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-09 7:01 ` [PATCH 5/7] m68k: factor the 8-byte lowlevel {get,put}_user code into helpers Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-09 7:01 ` [PATCH 6/7] m68k: provide __{get,put}_kernel_nofault Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-09 7:01 ` [PATCH 7/7] m68k: remove set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-11 7:20 ` RFC: remove set_fs for m68k Michael Schmitz
2021-07-12 9:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-12 10:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-07-12 19:12 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-07-13 5:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-13 8:16 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-07-13 8:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-14 19:26 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-07-14 20:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-07-15 5:44 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-07-16 2:03 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-07-17 5:41 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-07-18 1:14 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-07-21 17:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 19:20 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-07-23 4:00 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-07-23 5:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25 7:36 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-07-31 19:31 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-06 3:10 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-11 9:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-12 3:37 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-15 7:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-15 19:17 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-16 6:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2021-09-07 3:28 ` Mainline kernel crashes, was " Finn Thain
2021-09-07 5:53 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-09-07 23:50 ` Finn Thain
2021-09-08 8:54 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-09-09 9:40 ` Finn Thain
2021-09-09 23:29 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-09-09 22:51 ` Finn Thain
2021-09-10 0:03 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-09-12 0:51 ` Finn Thain
2021-09-12 3:55 ` Brad Boyer [this message]
2021-09-13 1:27 ` Finn Thain
2021-09-13 3:26 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-09-13 5:22 ` Finn Thain
2021-09-13 7:20 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-09-14 3:13 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-09-15 1:38 ` Finn Thain
2021-09-15 8:37 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-09-16 9:04 ` Finn Thain
2021-09-16 22:28 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-09-21 21:14 ` Michael Schcmitz
2021-08-22 19:33 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-23 4:04 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-23 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-23 21:31 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-23 21:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-24 8:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-24 8:44 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-24 8:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-25 7:51 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-25 8:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-25 22:59 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-25 23:30 ` Brad Boyer
2021-08-26 7:46 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-08-26 7:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-09-14 2:43 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-09-14 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 16:28 ` Al Viro
2021-09-14 16:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15 1:06 ` Al Viro
2021-07-12 19:04 ` Michael Schmitz
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