Commit 92181f19 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86: optimise x86's do_page_fault (C entry point for the page fault path)

Impact: cleanup, restructure code to improve assembly

gcc isn't _all_ that smart about spilling registers to stack or reusing
stack slots, even with branch annotations. do_page_fault contained a lot
of functionality, so split unlikely paths into their own functions, and
mark them as noinline just to be sure. I consider this actually to be
somewhat of a cleanup too: the main function now contains about half
the number of lines so the normal path is easier to read, while the error
cases are also nicely split away.

Also, ensure the order of arguments to functions is always the same: regs,
addr, error_code. This can reduce code size a tiny bit, and just looks neater
too.

And add a couple of branch annotations.

Before:
  do_page_fault:
          subq    $360, %rsp      #,

After:
  do_page_fault:
          subq    $56, %rsp       #,

bloat-o-meter:
  add/remove: 8/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 2222/-1680 (542)
  function                                     old     new   delta
  __bad_area_nosemaphore                         -     506    +506
  no_context                                     -     474    +474
  vmalloc_fault                                  -     424    +424
  spurious_fault                                 -     358    +358
  mm_fault_error                                 -     272    +272
  bad_area_access_error                          -      89     +89
  bad_area                                       -      89     +89
  bad_area_nosemaphore                           -      10     +10
  do_page_fault                               2464     784   -1680

Yes, the total size increases by 542 bytes, due to the extra function calls.
But these will very rarely be called (except for vmalloc_fault) in a normal
workload. Importantly, do_page_fault is less than 1/3rd it's original size,
and touches far less stack.

Existing gotos and branch hints did move a lot of the infrequently used text
out of the fastpath, but that's even further improved after this patch.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 0ce1c383
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