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With the intended removal of PREEMPT_NONE this_cpu operations based on
atomic instructions, guarded with preempt_disable()/preempt_enable() pairs
become more expensive: the preempt_disable() / preempt_enable() pairs are
not optimized away anymore during compile time.
In particular the conditional call to preempt_schedule_notrace() after
preempt_enable() adds additional code and register pressure.
E.g. this simple C code sequence
DEFINE_PER_CPU(long, foo);
long bar(long a) { return this_cpu_add_return(foo, a); }
generates this code:
11a976: eb af f0 68 00 24 stmg %r10,%r15,104(%r15)
11a97c: b9 04 00 ef lgr %r14,%r15
11a980: b9 04 00 b2 lgr %r11,%r2
11a984: e3 f0 ff c8 ff 71 lay %r15,-56(%r15)
11a98a: e3 e0 f0 98 00 24 stg %r14,152(%r15)
11a990: eb 01 03 a8 00 6a asi 936,1 <- __preempt_count_add(1)
11a996: c0 10 00 d2 ac b5 larl %r1,1b70300 <- address of percpu var
11a9a0: e3 10 23 b8 00 08 ag %r1,952 <- add percpu offset
11a9a6: eb ab 10 00 00 e8 laag %r10,%r11,0(%r1) <- atomic op
11a9ac: eb ff 03 a8 00 6e alsi 936,-1 <- __preempt_count_dec_and_test()
11a9b2: a7 54 00 05 jnhe 11a9bc <bar+0x4c>
11a9b6: c0 e5 00 76 d1 bd brasl %r14,ff4d30 <preempt_schedule_notrace>
11a9bc: b9 e8 b0 2a agrk %r2,%r10,%r11
11a9c0: eb af f0 a0 00 04 lmg %r10,%r15,160(%r15)
11a9c6 07 fe br %r14
Even though the above example is more or less the worst case, since the
branch to preempt_schedule_notrace() requires a stackframe, which
otherwise wouldn't be necessary, there is also the conditional jnhe branch
instruction.
Get rid of the conditional branch with the following code sequence:
11a8e6: c0 30 00 d0 c5 0d larl %r3,1b33300
11a8ec: b9 04 00 43 lgr %r4,%r3
11a8f0: eb 00 43 c0 00 52 mviy 960,4
11a8f6: e3 40 03 b8 00 08 ag %r4,952
11a8fc: eb 52 40 00 00 e8 laag %r5,%r2,0(%r4)
11a902: eb 00 03 c0 00 52 mviy 960,0
11a908: b9 08 00 25 agr %r2,%r5
11a90c 07 fe br %r14
The general idea is that this_cpu operations based on atomic instructions
are guarded with mviy instructions:
- The first mviy instruction writes the register number, which contains
the percpu address variable to lowcore. This also indicates that a
percpu code section is executed.
- The first instruction following the mviy instruction must be the ag
instruction which adds the percpu offset to the percpu address register.
- Afterwards the atomic percpu operation follows.
- Then a second mviy instruction writes a zero to lowcore, which indicates
the end of the percpu code section.
- In case of an interrupt/exception/nmi the register number which was
written to lowcore is copied to the exception frame (pt_regs), and a zero
is written to lowcore.
- On return to the previous context it is checked if a percpu code section
was executed (saved register number not zero), and if the process was
migrated to a different cpu. If the percpu offset was already added to
the percpu address register (instruction address does _not_ point to the
ag instruction) the content of the percpu address register is adjusted so
it points to percpu variable of the new cpu.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
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