linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/14] d_path: prepend_path() is unlikely to return non-zero

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Message-ID: <YNlMi80b8bpY1ZHk@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 28 Jun 2021 04:14:03 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Justin He <Justin.He@....com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
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        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/14] d_path: prepend_path() is unlikely to return
 non-zero

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 03:28:19AM +0000, Justin He wrote:

> > On which loads?  1 here is "mount/dentry pair is in somebody
> > else's namespace or outside of the subtree we are chrooted
> > into".  IOW, what's calling d_path() on your setup?
> 
> No special loads, merely collecting the results after kernel boots up.
> 
> To narrow down, I tested your branch [1] *without* my '%pD' series:
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/log/?h=work.d_path
> 
> The result is the same after kernel boots up.

IOW, you get 1 in call from d_absolute_path().  And the same commit has
-       if (prepend_path(path, &root, &b) > 1)
+       if (unlikely(prepend_path(path, &root, &b) > 1))
there.  What's the problem?

If you want to check mispredictions, put printks at the statements
under those if (unlikely(...)) and see how often do they trigger...