x86/process: Optimize TIF checks in __switch_to_xtra()
commit af8b3cd3 upstream Help the compiler to avoid reevaluating the thread flags for each checked bit by reordering the bit checks and providing an explicit xor for evaluation. With default defconfigs for each arch, x86_64: arch/x86/kernel/process.o text data bss dec hex 3056 8577 16 11649 2d81 Before 3024 8577 16 11617 2d61 After i386: arch/x86/kernel/process.o text data bss dec hex 2957 8673 8 11638 2d76 Before 2925 8673 8 11606 2d56 After Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Kyle Huey <khuey@kylehuey.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170214081104.9244-2-khuey@kylehuey.comSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [dwmw2: backported to make TIF_RDS handling simpler. No deferred TR reload.] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley (VMware) <matt.helsley@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Bo Gan <ganb@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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