[PATCH net v4] net: Force inlining of checksum functions in net/checksum.h

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Fri Feb 18 00:35:49 AEDT 2022


All functions defined as static inline in net/checksum.h are
meant to be inlined for performance reason.

But since commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly") the compiler is allowed to
uninline functions when it wants.

Fair enough in the general case, but for tiny performance critical
checksum helpers that's counter-productive.

The problem mainly arises when selecting CONFIG_CC_OPTIMISE_FOR_SIZE,
Those helpers being 'static inline' in header files you suddenly find
them duplicated many times in the resulting vmlinux.

Here is a typical exemple when building powerpc pmac32_defconfig
with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMISE_FOR_SIZE. csum_sub() appears 4 times:

	c04a23cc <csum_sub>:
	c04a23cc:	7c 84 20 f8 	not     r4,r4
	c04a23d0:	7c 63 20 14 	addc    r3,r3,r4
	c04a23d4:	7c 63 01 94 	addze   r3,r3
	c04a23d8:	4e 80 00 20 	blr
		...
	c04a2ce8:	4b ff f6 e5 	bl      c04a23cc <csum_sub>
		...
	c04a2d2c:	4b ff f6 a1 	bl      c04a23cc <csum_sub>
		...
	c04a2d54:	4b ff f6 79 	bl      c04a23cc <csum_sub>
		...
	c04a754c <csum_sub>:
	c04a754c:	7c 84 20 f8 	not     r4,r4
	c04a7550:	7c 63 20 14 	addc    r3,r3,r4
	c04a7554:	7c 63 01 94 	addze   r3,r3
	c04a7558:	4e 80 00 20 	blr
		...
	c04ac930:	4b ff ac 1d 	bl      c04a754c <csum_sub>
		...
	c04ad264:	4b ff a2 e9 	bl      c04a754c <csum_sub>
		...
	c04e3b08 <csum_sub>:
	c04e3b08:	7c 84 20 f8 	not     r4,r4
	c04e3b0c:	7c 63 20 14 	addc    r3,r3,r4
	c04e3b10:	7c 63 01 94 	addze   r3,r3
	c04e3b14:	4e 80 00 20 	blr
		...
	c04e5788:	4b ff e3 81 	bl      c04e3b08 <csum_sub>
		...
	c04e65c8:	4b ff d5 41 	bl      c04e3b08 <csum_sub>
		...
	c0512d34 <csum_sub>:
	c0512d34:	7c 84 20 f8 	not     r4,r4
	c0512d38:	7c 63 20 14 	addc    r3,r3,r4
	c0512d3c:	7c 63 01 94 	addze   r3,r3
	c0512d40:	4e 80 00 20 	blr
		...
	c0512dfc:	4b ff ff 39 	bl      c0512d34 <csum_sub>
		...
	c05138bc:	4b ff f4 79 	bl      c0512d34 <csum_sub>
		...

Restore the expected behaviour by using __always_inline for all
functions defined in net/checksum.h

vmlinux size is even reduced by 256 bytes with this patch:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
	6980022	2515362	 194384	9689768	 93daa8	vmlinux.before
	6979862	2515266	 194384	9689512	 93d9a8	vmlinux.now

Fixes: ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly")
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
---
v4: Added Cc: as complained by netdev patchwork and handled checkpatch checks. (Sorry for the noise, I'm not used to netdev process)

v3: Added fixes tag and handled checkpatch warning about length of lines.

v2: Rebased on net tree
---
 include/net/checksum.h | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/checksum.h b/include/net/checksum.h
index 5218041e5c8f..02d0c2d01014 100644
--- a/include/net/checksum.h
+++ b/include/net/checksum.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #include <asm/checksum.h>
 
 #ifndef _HAVE_ARCH_COPY_AND_CSUM_FROM_USER
-static inline
+static __always_inline
 __wsum csum_and_copy_from_user (const void __user *src, void *dst,
 				      int len)
 {
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ __wsum csum_and_copy_from_user (const void __user *src, void *dst,
 #endif
 
 #ifndef HAVE_CSUM_COPY_USER
-static __inline__ __wsum csum_and_copy_to_user
+static __always_inline __wsum csum_and_copy_to_user
 (const void *src, void __user *dst, int len)
 {
 	__wsum sum = csum_partial(src, len, ~0U);
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static __inline__ __wsum csum_and_copy_to_user
 #endif
 
 #ifndef _HAVE_ARCH_CSUM_AND_COPY
-static inline __wsum
+static __always_inline __wsum
 csum_partial_copy_nocheck(const void *src, void *dst, int len)
 {
 	memcpy(dst, src, len);
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ csum_partial_copy_nocheck(const void *src, void *dst, int len)
 #endif
 
 #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_CSUM_ADD
-static inline __wsum csum_add(__wsum csum, __wsum addend)
+static __always_inline __wsum csum_add(__wsum csum, __wsum addend)
 {
 	u32 res = (__force u32)csum;
 	res += (__force u32)addend;
@@ -62,12 +62,12 @@ static inline __wsum csum_add(__wsum csum, __wsum addend)
 }
 #endif
 
-static inline __wsum csum_sub(__wsum csum, __wsum addend)
+static __always_inline __wsum csum_sub(__wsum csum, __wsum addend)
 {
 	return csum_add(csum, ~addend);
 }
 
-static inline __sum16 csum16_add(__sum16 csum, __be16 addend)
+static __always_inline __sum16 csum16_add(__sum16 csum, __be16 addend)
 {
 	u16 res = (__force u16)csum;
 
@@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ static inline __sum16 csum16_add(__sum16 csum, __be16 addend)
 	return (__force __sum16)(res + (res < (__force u16)addend));
 }
 
-static inline __sum16 csum16_sub(__sum16 csum, __be16 addend)
+static __always_inline __sum16 csum16_sub(__sum16 csum, __be16 addend)
 {
 	return csum16_add(csum, ~addend);
 }
 
-static inline __wsum csum_shift(__wsum sum, int offset)
+static __always_inline __wsum csum_shift(__wsum sum, int offset)
 {
 	/* rotate sum to align it with a 16b boundary */
 	if (offset & 1)
@@ -88,42 +88,43 @@ static inline __wsum csum_shift(__wsum sum, int offset)
 	return sum;
 }
 
-static inline __wsum
+static __always_inline __wsum
 csum_block_add(__wsum csum, __wsum csum2, int offset)
 {
 	return csum_add(csum, csum_shift(csum2, offset));
 }
 
-static inline __wsum
+static __always_inline __wsum
 csum_block_add_ext(__wsum csum, __wsum csum2, int offset, int len)
 {
 	return csum_block_add(csum, csum2, offset);
 }
 
-static inline __wsum
+static __always_inline __wsum
 csum_block_sub(__wsum csum, __wsum csum2, int offset)
 {
 	return csum_block_add(csum, ~csum2, offset);
 }
 
-static inline __wsum csum_unfold(__sum16 n)
+static __always_inline __wsum csum_unfold(__sum16 n)
 {
 	return (__force __wsum)n;
 }
 
-static inline __wsum csum_partial_ext(const void *buff, int len, __wsum sum)
+static __always_inline
+__wsum csum_partial_ext(const void *buff, int len, __wsum sum)
 {
 	return csum_partial(buff, len, sum);
 }
 
 #define CSUM_MANGLED_0 ((__force __sum16)0xffff)
 
-static inline void csum_replace_by_diff(__sum16 *sum, __wsum diff)
+static __always_inline void csum_replace_by_diff(__sum16 *sum, __wsum diff)
 {
 	*sum = csum_fold(csum_add(diff, ~csum_unfold(*sum)));
 }
 
-static inline void csum_replace4(__sum16 *sum, __be32 from, __be32 to)
+static __always_inline void csum_replace4(__sum16 *sum, __be32 from, __be32 to)
 {
 	__wsum tmp = csum_sub(~csum_unfold(*sum), (__force __wsum)from);
 
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ static inline void csum_replace4(__sum16 *sum, __be32 from, __be32 to)
  *  m : old value of a 16bit field
  *  m' : new value of a 16bit field
  */
-static inline void csum_replace2(__sum16 *sum, __be16 old, __be16 new)
+static __always_inline void csum_replace2(__sum16 *sum, __be16 old, __be16 new)
 {
 	*sum = ~csum16_add(csum16_sub(~(*sum), old), new);
 }
@@ -150,16 +151,16 @@ void inet_proto_csum_replace16(__sum16 *sum, struct sk_buff *skb,
 void inet_proto_csum_replace_by_diff(__sum16 *sum, struct sk_buff *skb,
 				     __wsum diff, bool pseudohdr);
 
-static inline void inet_proto_csum_replace2(__sum16 *sum, struct sk_buff *skb,
-					    __be16 from, __be16 to,
-					    bool pseudohdr)
+static __always_inline
+void inet_proto_csum_replace2(__sum16 *sum, struct sk_buff *skb,
+			      __be16 from, __be16 to, bool pseudohdr)
 {
 	inet_proto_csum_replace4(sum, skb, (__force __be32)from,
 				 (__force __be32)to, pseudohdr);
 }
 
-static inline __wsum remcsum_adjust(void *ptr, __wsum csum,
-				    int start, int offset)
+static __always_inline __wsum remcsum_adjust(void *ptr, __wsum csum,
+					     int start, int offset)
 {
 	__sum16 *psum = (__sum16 *)(ptr + offset);
 	__wsum delta;
@@ -175,12 +176,12 @@ static inline __wsum remcsum_adjust(void *ptr, __wsum csum,
 	return delta;
 }
 
-static inline void remcsum_unadjust(__sum16 *psum, __wsum delta)
+static __always_inline void remcsum_unadjust(__sum16 *psum, __wsum delta)
 {
 	*psum = csum_fold(csum_sub(delta, (__force __wsum)*psum));
 }
 
-static inline __wsum wsum_negate(__wsum val)
+static __always_inline __wsum wsum_negate(__wsum val)
 {
 	return (__force __wsum)-((__force u32)val);
 }
-- 
2.34.1



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