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authorJianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>2014-06-04 16:08:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-04 16:54:03 -0700
commitd2ee40eae98d8a41ff27dcdd13b1b656c4c1ad00 (patch)
treed26650dbfccd69d68781f7647a916ef262148812 /mm
parent4bd3e8f7b94785a6f65665fee21ff3dbc2bf4ef8 (diff)
downloadlinux-d2ee40eae98d8a41ff27dcdd13b1b656c4c1ad00.tar.bz2
mm: introdule compound_head_by_tail()
Currently, in put_compound_page(), we have ====== if (likely(!PageTail(page))) { <------ (1) if (put_page_testzero(page)) { /* ¦* By the time all refcounts have been released ¦* split_huge_page cannot run anymore from under us. ¦*/ if (PageHead(page)) __put_compound_page(page); else __put_single_page(page); } return; } /* __split_huge_page_refcount can run under us */ page_head = compound_head(page); <------------ (2) ====== if at (1) , we fail the check, this means page is *likely* a tail page. Then at (2), as compoud_head(page) is inlined, it is : ====== static inline struct page *compound_head(struct page *page) { if (unlikely(PageTail(page))) { <----------- (3) struct page *head = page->first_page; smp_rmb(); if (likely(PageTail(page))) return head; } return page; } ====== here, the (3) unlikely in the case is a negative hint, because it is *likely* a tail page. So the check (3) in this case is not good, so I introduce a helper for this case. So this patch introduces compound_head_by_tail() which deals with a possible tail page(though it could be spilt by a racy thread), and make compound_head() a wrapper on it. This patch has no functional change, and it reduces the object size slightly: text data bss dec hex filename 11003 1328 16 12347 303b mm/swap.o.orig 10971 1328 16 12315 301b mm/swap.o.patched I've ran "perf top -e branch-miss" to observe branch-miss in this case. As Michael points out, it's a slow path, so only very few times this case happens. But I grep'ed the code base, and found there still are some other call sites could be benifited from this helper. And given that it only bloating up the source by only 5 lines, but with a reduced object size. I still believe this helper deserves to exsit. Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/swap.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index d089c5a0cf98..c8d6df556ce6 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static void put_compound_page(struct page *page)
* Case 3 is possible, as we may race with
* __split_huge_page_refcount tearing down a THP page.
*/
- page_head = compound_head(page);
+ page_head = compound_head_by_tail(page);
if (!__compound_tail_refcounted(page_head))
put_unrefcounted_compound_page(page_head, page);
else