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From e950cca3f3c40902a052a78a36b3fac1f8a62d19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 16:36:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] lib/smp_processor_id: Don't use cpumask_equal()
Git-commit: e950cca3f3c40902a052a78a36b3fac1f8a62d19 
Patch-mainline: v5.5-rc1
References: bsc#1149032

The check_preemption_disabled() function uses cpumask_equal() to see
if the task is bounded to the current CPU only. cpumask_equal() calls
memcmp() to do the comparison. As x86 doesn't have __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCMP,
the slow memcmp() function in lib/string.c is used.

On a RT kernel that call check_preemption_disabled() very frequently,
below is the perf-record output of a certain microbenchmark:

  42.75%  2.45%  testpmd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] check_preemption_disabled
  40.01% 39.97%  testpmd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memcmp

We should avoid calling memcmp() in performance critical path. So the
cpumask_equal() call is now replaced with an equivalent simpler check.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191003203608.21881-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>

---
 lib/smp_processor_id.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/smp_processor_id.c b/lib/smp_processor_id.c
index 60ba93fc42ce..bd9571653288 100644
--- a/lib/smp_processor_id.c
+++ b/lib/smp_processor_id.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ unsigned int check_preemption_disabled(const char *what1, const char *what2)
 	 * Kernel threads bound to a single CPU can safely use
 	 * smp_processor_id():
 	 */
-	if (cpumask_equal(current->cpus_ptr, cpumask_of(this_cpu)))
+	if (current->nr_cpus_allowed == 1)
 		goto out;
 
 	/*
-- 
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