linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 20/31] arm64: User access library function

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Message-ID: <20120905210135.GA87548@MacBook-Pro.local>
Date:	Wed, 5 Sep 2012 22:01:37 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@....com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 20/31] arm64: User access library function

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 08:13:12PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:49:54PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > It's fairly unusual to have out of line get_user/put_user functions.
> > What is the reason for this, other than copying from ARM?
> 
> Actually, we never used to out of line on ARM, and then I experimented,
> and found there was a net benefit - not only in code size but also
> there appeared to be a performance benefit by out of lining them.

There are indeed a few KB gain in code size but that's probably coming
from the exception table since otherwise you just replace a bl with
ldrt. It depends on what the compiler does as well, the arm code has
some carefully chosen registers when calling the __get_user_x function.

If you do the access_ok inline and the __get_user_x separately, the size
increase is even greater (at least in the arm64 case it can get to over
20KB). I think x86 does the access_ok check out of line.

For now I changed the arm64 code to inline as most of the other
architectures but I'll revisit this when I get some hardware. Another
thing to be optimised is the size of the exception table entry. I use
two .quad declarations for the fault address and branch but I guess they
could be made relative to PAGE_OFFSET and only use .long (or some
prel31).

-- 
Catalin
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