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Message-ID: <20120126102836.GD3853@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:28:37 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing/module: Move tracepoint out of module.h
* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 09:29 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > could just move the "if" part out.
> >
> > Agreed. Since GCC should be able to eliminate that branch in almost all
> > cases, since it's usually a literal NULL or address of a (non-weak)
> > symbol.
> >
> > Be interesting to see the before/after sizes with this out-of-line.
>
> Using my default test config I got:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 7489488 2249584 9719808 19458880 128eb40 vmlinux-prepatch
> 7482458 2248048 9719808 19450314 128c9ca vmlinux-postpatch
>
> An 8k savings!
Lovely!
> @@ -445,8 +444,7 @@ static inline void __module_get(struct module *module)
> {
> if (module) {
> preempt_disable();
> - __this_cpu_inc(module->refptr->incs);
> - trace_module_get(module, _THIS_IP_);
> + inc_module(module, _THIS_IP_);
> preempt_enable();
> }
> }
> @@ -458,10 +456,9 @@ static inline int try_module_get(struct module *module)
> if (module) {
> preempt_disable();
>
> - if (likely(module_is_live(module))) {
> - __this_cpu_inc(module->refptr->incs);
> - trace_module_get(module, _THIS_IP_);
> - } else
> + if (likely(module_is_live(module)))
> + inc_module(module, _THIS_IP_);
> + else
> ret = 0;
How much more do we save if we move all of try_module_get() out
of line? It still seems a rather thick inline function with
preempt section and all. I'd *really* suggest that it should all
be uninlined.
Thanks,
Ingo
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