On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:19:16PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:25:36AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Calling might_fault() for every __get_user/__put_user is rather expensive
> > because it turns what should be a single instruction (plus fixup) into an
> > external function call.
>
> We could hide it all behind CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP just like
> might_sleep() is. I'm not sure there's a point to might_fault() when
> might_sleep() is a NOP.
The patch that you posted gets pretty close.
E.g. I'm testing this now:
+#define might_fault() do { \
+ if (_might_fault()) \
+ __might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__, 0); \
+ might_resched(); \
+} while(0)
So if might_sleep is a NOP, __might_sleep and might_resched are NOPs
so compiler will optimize this all out.
However, in a related thread, you pointed out that might_sleep is not a NOP if
CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is set, even without CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP.
Do you think we should drop the preemption point in might_fault?
Only copy_XX_user?
Only __copy_XXX_user ?
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