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authorWill Deacon2019-11-21 11:58:57 +0000
committerIngo Molnar2019-11-25 09:15:10 +0100
commitdcb786493f3e48da3272b710028d42ec608cfda1 (patch)
tree9058d4cfc8c638f8e1799f0c24b48d18fc7f0262 /lib
parent77e9971c79c29542ab7dd4140f9343bf2ff36158 (diff)
locking/refcount: Improve performance of generic REFCOUNT_FULL code
Rewrite the generic REFCOUNT_FULL implementation so that the saturation point is moved to INT_MIN / 2. This allows us to defer the sanity checks until after the atomic operation, which removes many uses of cmpxchg() in favour of atomic_fetch_{add,sub}(). Some crude perf results obtained from lkdtm show substantially less overhead, despite the checking: $ perf stat -r 3 -B -- echo {ATOMIC,REFCOUNT}_TIMING >/sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT # arm64 ATOMIC_TIMING: 46.50451 +- 0.00134 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.00% ) REFCOUNT_TIMING (REFCOUNT_FULL, mainline): 77.57522 +- 0.00982 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.01% ) REFCOUNT_TIMING (REFCOUNT_FULL, this series): 48.7181 +- 0.0256 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.05% ) # x86 ATOMIC_TIMING: 31.6225 +- 0.0776 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.25% ) REFCOUNT_TIMING (!REFCOUNT_FULL, mainline/x86 asm): 31.6689 +- 0.0901 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.28% ) REFCOUNT_TIMING (REFCOUNT_FULL, mainline): 53.203 +- 0.138 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.26% ) REFCOUNT_TIMING (REFCOUNT_FULL, this series): 31.7408 +- 0.0486 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.15% ) Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Tested-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@marvell.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191121115902.2551-6-will@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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