The patch titled Subject: lib/vsprintf.c: improve put_dec_trunc8 slightly has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is lib-vsprintfc-improve-put_dec_trunc8-slightly.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-vsprintfc-improve-put_dec_trunc8-slightly.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-vsprintfc-improve-put_dec_trunc8-slightly.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib/vsprintf.c: improve put_dec_trunc8 slightly I hadn't had enough coffee when I wrote this. Currently, the final increment of buf depends on the value loaded from the table, and causes gcc to emit a cmov immediately before the return. It is smarter to let it depend on r, since the increment can then be computed in parallel with the final load/store pair. It also shaves 16 bytes of .text. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/vsprintf.c | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/vsprintf.c~lib-vsprintfc-improve-put_dec_trunc8-slightly lib/vsprintf.c --- a/lib/vsprintf.c~lib-vsprintfc-improve-put_dec_trunc8-slightly +++ a/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ static const u16 decpair[100] = { /* * This will print a single '0' even if r == 0, since we would - * immediately jump to out_r where two 0s would be written and one of - * them then discarded. This is needed by ip4_string below. All other - * callers pass a non-zero value of r. + * immediately jump to out_r where two 0s would be written but only + * one of them accounted for in buf. This is needed by ip4_string + * below. All other callers pass a non-zero value of r. */ static noinline_for_stack char *put_dec_trunc8(char *buf, unsigned r) @@ -206,9 +206,7 @@ out_q: out_r: /* 1 <= r < 100 */ *((u16 *)buf) = decpair[r]; - buf += 2; - if (buf[-1] == '0') - buf--; + buf += r < 10 ? 1 : 2; return buf; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are include-linux-remove-empty-conditionals.patch lib-vsprintfc-eliminate-some-branches.patch lib-vsprintfc-reduce-stack-use-in-number.patch lib-vsprintfc-eliminate-duplicate-hex-string-array.patch lib-vsprintfc-another-small-hack.patch lib-vsprintfc-fix-potential-null-deref-in-hex_string.patch lib-string_helpersc-refactor-string_escape_mem.patch lib-string_helpersc-change-semantics-of-string_escape_mem.patch lib-string_helpersc-change-semantics-of-string_escape_mem-fix.patch lib-string_helpersc-change-semantics-of-string_escape_mem-fix-fix.patch linux-bitmaph-improve-bitmap_lastfirst_word_mask.patch lib-find__bit-reimplementation.patch lib-find__bit-reimplementation-fix.patch lib-move-find_last_bit-to-lib-find_next_bitc.patch lib-rename-lib-find_next_bitc-to-lib-find_bitc.patch lib-vsprintfc-even-faster-decimal-conversion.patch lib-vsprintfc-even-faster-decimal-conversion-fix.patch lib-vsprintfc-improve-put_dec_trunc8-slightly.patch binfmt_misc-simplify-entry_status.patch binfmt_misc-simplify-entry_status-fix.patch rtc-mc13xxx-fix-obfuscated-and-wrong-format-string.patch lib-lz4-pull-out-constant-tables.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html