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Colin Ian King 9fa26fb554 mm/mincore: improve performance by adding an unlikely hint
Adding an unlikely() hint on the masked start comparison error return path
improves run-time performance of the mincore system call.

Benchmarking on an i9-12900 shows an improvement of 7ns on mincore calls
on a 256KB mmap'd region where 50% of the pages we resident.  Improvement
was from ~970 ns down to 963 ns, so a small ~0.7% improvement.

Results based on running 20 tests with turbo disabled (to reduce clock
freq turbo changes), with 10 second run per test and comparing the number
of mincores calls per second.  The % standard deviation of the 20 tests
was ~0.10%, so results are reliable.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250219083607.5183-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16 22:06:32 -07:00
arch arm/pgtable: remove duplicate included header file 2025-03-16 22:06:31 -07:00
block block-6.14-20250306 2025-03-07 11:12:33 -10:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
Documentation Docs/mm/damon/design: document unmapped DAMOS filter type 2025-03-16 22:06:32 -07:00
drivers fb_defio: do not use deprecated page->mapping, index fields 2025-03-16 22:06:11 -07:00
fs mm/sparse: allow for alternate vmemmap section init at boot 2025-03-16 22:06:27 -07:00
include mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages 2025-03-16 22:06:32 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.14 2025-01-31 12:07:07 -08:00
io_uring io_uring-6.14-20250306 2025-03-07 11:09:33 -10:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel mm: make vma cache SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2025-03-16 22:06:21 -07:00
lib maple_tree: remove a BUG_ON() in mas_alloc_nodes() 2025-03-16 22:06:15 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/mincore: improve performance by adding an unlikely hint 2025-03-16 22:06:32 -07:00
net percpu: use TYPEOF_UNQUAL() in variable declarations 2025-03-16 22:05:53 -07:00
rust Driver core api addition for 6.14-rc3 2025-02-16 12:54:42 -08:00
samples samples: kmemleak: print the raw pointers for debugging purposes 2025-03-16 22:06:08 -07:00
scripts kbuild: install-extmod-build: Fix build when specifying KBUILD_OUTPUT 2025-03-06 20:32:30 +09:00
security Landlock fix for v6.14-rc5 2025-02-26 11:55:44 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add support for ASUS Zenbook UM3406KA Laptops using CS35L41 HDA 2025-03-05 19:52:56 +01:00
tools selftests/mm: fix spelling 2025-03-16 22:06:23 -07:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-05 04:06:45 +09:00
virt KVM: remove kvm_arch_post_init_vm 2025-02-04 11:27:45 -05:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-01-10 00:17:25 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: use host dylib naming convention to support macOS 2025-01-10 01:01:24 +01:00
.mailmap 33 hotfixes. 24 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.13 issues 2025-03-08 14:34:06 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mm: zbud: remove zbud 2025-03-16 22:06:01 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS mm/hugetlb: move hugetlb CMA code in to its own file 2025-03-16 22:06:31 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.14-rc6 2025-03-09 13:45:25 -10:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.