From: Jianyu Zhan Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:02 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm: introdule compound_head_by_tail() X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.16/fixes-against-rc1~56^2~16^2~162 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2ee40eae98d8a41ff27dcdd13b1b656c4c1ad00;p=pandora-kernel.git mm: introdule compound_head_by_tail() Currently, in put_compound_page(), we have ====== if (likely(!PageTail(page))) { <------ (1) if (put_page_testzero(page)) { /* ¦* By the time all refcounts have been released ¦* split_huge_page cannot run anymore from under us. ¦*/ if (PageHead(page)) __put_compound_page(page); else __put_single_page(page); } return; } /* __split_huge_page_refcount can run under us */ page_head = compound_head(page); <------------ (2) ====== if at (1) , we fail the check, this means page is *likely* a tail page. Then at (2), as compoud_head(page) is inlined, it is : ====== static inline struct page *compound_head(struct page *page) { if (unlikely(PageTail(page))) { <----------- (3) struct page *head = page->first_page; smp_rmb(); if (likely(PageTail(page))) return head; } return page; } ====== here, the (3) unlikely in the case is a negative hint, because it is *likely* a tail page. So the check (3) in this case is not good, so I introduce a helper for this case. So this patch introduces compound_head_by_tail() which deals with a possible tail page(though it could be spilt by a racy thread), and make compound_head() a wrapper on it. This patch has no functional change, and it reduces the object size slightly: text data bss dec hex filename 11003 1328 16 12347 303b mm/swap.o.orig 10971 1328 16 12315 301b mm/swap.o.patched I've ran "perf top -e branch-miss" to observe branch-miss in this case. As Michael points out, it's a slow path, so only very few times this case happens. But I grep'ed the code base, and found there still are some other call sites could be benifited from this helper. And given that it only bloating up the source by only 5 lines, but with a reduced object size. I still believe this helper deserves to exsit. Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Wanpeng Li Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed