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authorHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>2026-01-13 20:43:57 +0100
committerHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>2026-01-17 15:52:49 +0100
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s390/preempt: Optimize preempt_count()
Provide an inline assembly using alternatives to avoid the need of a base register when reading preempt_count() from lowcore. Use the LLGT instruction, which reads only the least significant 31 bits of preempt_count. This masks out the encoded PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED bit. Generated code is changed from 000000000046e5d0 <vfree>: 46e5d0: c0 04 00 00 00 00 jgnop 46e5d0 <vfree> 46e5d6: a7 39 00 00 lghi %r3,0 46e5da: 58 10 33 a8 l %r1,936(%r3) 46e5de: c0 1b 00 ff ff 00 nilf %r1,16776960 46e5e4: a7 74 00 11 jne 46e606 <vfree+0x36> to something like this: 000000000046e5d0 <vfree>: 46e5d0: c0 04 00 00 00 00 jgnop 46e5d0 <vfree> 46e5d6: e3 10 03 a8 00 17 llgt %r1,936 46e5dc: ec 41 28 b7 00 55 risbgz %r4,%r1,40,55 46e5e2: a7 74 00 0f jne 46e600 <vfree+0x30> Overall savings are only 82 bytes according to bloat-o-meter. This is because of different inlining decisions, and there aren't many preempt_count() users in the kernel. Reviewed-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
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