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Josh Poimboeuf reports that he got a "will-it-scale.per_process_ops 1.9% improvement" report for his patch that changed __get_user() to use pointer masking instead of the explicit speculation barrier. However, that patch doesn't actually work in the general case, because some (very bad) architecture-specific code actually depends on __get_user() also working on kernel addresses. A profile showed that the offending __get_user() was the futex code, which really should be fixed up to not use that horrid legacy case. Rewrite futex_get_value_locked() to use the modern user acccess helpers, and inline it so that the compiler not only avoids the function call for a few instructions, but can do CSE on the address masking. It also turns out the x86 futex functions have unnecessary barriers in other places, so let's fix those up too. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241115230653.hfvzyf3aqqntgp63@jpoimboe/ Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.