mm, page_alloc: check multiple page fields with a single branch
Every page allocated or freed is checked for sanity to avoid corruptions that are difficult to detect later. A bad page could be due to a number of fields. Instead of using multiple branches, this patch combines multiple fields into a single branch. A detailed check is only necessary if that check fails. 4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2 initonce-v1r20 multcheck-v1r20 Min alloc-odr0-1 359.00 ( 0.00%) 348.00 ( 3.06%) Min alloc-odr0-2 260.00 ( 0.00%) 254.00 ( 2.31%) Min alloc-odr0-4 214.00 ( 0.00%) 213.00 ( 0.47%) Min alloc-odr0-8 186.00 ( 0.00%) 186.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-16 173.00 ( 0.00%) 173.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-32 165.00 ( 0.00%) 166.00 ( -0.61%) Min alloc-odr0-64 162.00 ( 0.00%) 162.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-128 161.00 ( 0.00%) 160.00 ( 0.62%) Min alloc-odr0-256 170.00 ( 0.00%) 169.00 ( 0.59%) Min alloc-odr0-512 181.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 0.55%) Min alloc-odr0-1024 190.00 ( 0.00%) 188.00 ( 1.05%) Min alloc-odr0-2048 196.00 ( 0.00%) 194.00 ( 1.02%) Min alloc-odr0-4096 202.00 ( 0.00%) 199.00 ( 1.49%) Min alloc-odr0-8192 205.00 ( 0.00%) 202.00 ( 1.46%) Min alloc-odr0-16384 205.00 ( 0.00%) 203.00 ( 0.98%) Again, the benefit is marginal but avoiding excessive branches is important. Ideally the paths would not have to check these conditions at all but regrettably abandoning the tests would make use-after-free bugs much harder to detect. Signed-off-by:Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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