linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Vlastimil Babka 4e45f712d8 include/linux/slab.h: fix sparse warning in kmalloc_type()
Multiple people have reported the following sparse warning:

./include/linux/slab.h:332:43: warning: dubious: x & !y

The minimal fix would be to change the logical & to boolean &&, which
emits the same code, but Andrew has suggested that the branch-avoiding
tricks are maybe not worthwile.  David Laight provided a nice comparison
of disassembly of multiple variants, which shows that the current version
produces a 4 deep dependency chain, and fixing the sparse warning by
changing logical and to multiplication emits an IMUL, making it even more
expensive.

The code as rewritten by this patch yielded the best disassembly, with a
single predictable branch for the most common case, and a ternary operator
for the rest, which gcc seems to compile without a branch or cmov by
itself.

The result should be more readable, without a sparse warning and probably
also faster for the common case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/80340595-d7c5-97b9-4f6c-23fa893a91e9@suse.cz
Fixes: 1291523f2c ("mm, slab/slub: introduce kmalloc-reclaimable caches")
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reported-by: Darryl T. Agostinelli <dagostinelli@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-12-28 12:11:46 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-12-26 17:03:51 -08:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-12-26 18:08:18 -08:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: skcipher - remove remnants of internal IV generators 2018-12-23 11:52:45 +08:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-next-4.21' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next 2018-12-13 10:06:34 +10:00
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kvm KVM: arm/arm64: Remove arch timer workqueue 2018-12-19 17:47:07 +00:00
linux include/linux/slab.h: fix sparse warning in kmalloc_type() 2018-12-28 12:11:46 -08:00
math-emu
media media fixes for v4.20-rc8 2018-12-25 13:11:30 -08:00
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net net: dccp: fix kernel crash on module load 2018-12-24 15:27:56 -08:00
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