linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] kstrtox: use "unsigned int" more

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Message-ID: <20170514194720.GB32563@avx2>
Date:   Sun, 14 May 2017 22:47:20 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] kstrtox: use "unsigned int" more

gcc does generates stupid code sign extending data back and forth.
Help by using "unsigned int".

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/3 up/down: 0/-61 (-61)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	_parse_integer                               128     123      -5

It _still_ does generate useless MOVSX but I don't know how to delete it:

0000000000000070 <_parse_integer>:
			...
  a0:   89 c2                   mov    edx,eax
  a2:   83 e8 30                sub    eax,0x30
  a5:   83 f8 09                cmp    eax,0x9
  a8:   76 11                   jbe    bb <_parse_integer+0x4b>
  aa:   83 ca 20                or     edx,0x20
  ad:   0f be c2      ===>      movsx  eax,dl         <===
			useless
  b0:   8d 50 9f                lea    edx,[rax-0x61]
  b3:   83 fa 05                cmp    edx,0x5

Patch also helps on embedded archs which generally only like "int".
On arm "and 0xff" is generated which is waste because all values used in
comparisons are positive.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 lib/kstrtox.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/lib/kstrtox.c
+++ b/lib/kstrtox.c
@@ -52,12 +52,14 @@ unsigned int _parse_integer(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long
 	res = 0;
 	rv = 0;
 	while (1) {
+		unsigned int c = *s;
+		unsigned int lc = c | 0x20; /* don't tolower() this line */
 		unsigned int val;
 
-		if ('0' <= *s && *s <= '9')
-			val = *s - '0';
-		else if ('a' <= _tolower(*s) && _tolower(*s) <= 'f')
-			val = _tolower(*s) - 'a' + 10;
+		if ('0' <= c && c <= '9')
+			val = c - '0';
+		else if ('a' <= lc && lc <= 'f')
+			val = lc - 'a' + 10;
 		else
 			break;