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* [PATCH REPOST] locking/local_lock: Make the empty local_lock_*() function a macro.
@ 2022-02-08 17:08 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
  2022-02-09 21:08 ` Davidlohr Bueso
  2022-02-11 11:16 ` [tip: locking/core] " tip-bot2 for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior @ 2022-02-08 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Peter Zijlstra, Waiman Long, Ingo Molnar, Will Deacon, Thomas Gleixner

It has been said that local_lock() does not add any overhead compared to
preempt_disable() in a !LOCKDEP configuration. A micro benchmark showed
an unexpected result which can be reduced to the fact that local_lock()
was not entirely optimized away.
In the !LOCKDEP configuration local_lock_acquire() is an empty static
inline function. On x86 the this_cpu_ptr() argument of that function is
fully evaluated leading to an additional mov+add instructions which are
not needed and not used.

Replace the static inline function with a macro. The typecheck() macro
ensures that the argument is of proper type while the resulting
disassembly shows no traces of this_cpu_ptr().

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
---
Repost of
   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220105202623.1118172-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de

 include/linux/local_lock_internal.h |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/local_lock_internal.h
+++ b/include/linux/local_lock_internal.h
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ static inline void local_lock_debug_init
 }
 #else /* CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */
 # define LOCAL_LOCK_DEBUG_INIT(lockname)
-static inline void local_lock_acquire(local_lock_t *l) { }
-static inline void local_lock_release(local_lock_t *l) { }
-static inline void local_lock_debug_init(local_lock_t *l) { }
+# define local_lock_acquire(__ll)  do { typecheck(local_lock_t *, __ll); } while (0)
+# define local_lock_release(__ll)  do { typecheck(local_lock_t *, __ll); } while (0)
+# define local_lock_debug_init(__ll)  do { typecheck(local_lock_t *, __ll); } while (0)
 #endif /* !CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */
 
 #define INIT_LOCAL_LOCK(lockname)	{ LOCAL_LOCK_DEBUG_INIT(lockname) }

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