x86: optimise x86's do_page_fault (C entry point for the page fault path)
Impact: cleanup, restructure code to improve assembly
gcc isn't _all_ that smart about spilling registers to stack or reusing
stack slots, even with branch annotations. do_page_fault contained a lot
of functionality, so split unlikely paths into their own functions, and
mark them as noinline just to be sure. I consider this actually to be
somewhat of a cleanup too: the main function now contains about half
the number of lines so the normal path is easier to read, while the error
cases are also nicely split away.
Also, ensure the order of arguments to functions is always the same: regs,
addr, error_code. This can reduce code size a tiny bit, and just looks neater
too.
And add a couple of branch annotations.
Before:
do_page_fault:
subq $360, %rsp #,
After:
do_page_fault:
subq $56, %rsp #,
bloat-o-meter:
add/remove: 8/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 2222/-1680 (542)
function old new delta
__bad_area_nosemaphore - 506 +506
no_context - 474 +474
vmalloc_fault - 424 +424
spurious_fault - 358 +358
mm_fault_error - 272 +272
bad_area_access_error - 89 +89
bad_area - 89 +89
bad_area_nosemaphore - 10 +10
do_page_fault 2464 784 -1680
Yes, the total size increases by 542 bytes, due to the extra function calls.
But these will very rarely be called (except for vmalloc_fault) in a normal
workload. Importantly, do_page_fault is less than 1/3rd it's original size,
and touches far less stack.
Existing gotos and branch hints did move a lot of the infrequently used text
out of the fastpath, but that's even further improved after this patch.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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