[PATCH 10/10] perf/ring_buffer: use local_try_cmpxchg in __perf_output_begin

Uros Bizjak ubizjak at gmail.com
Mon Mar 6 07:56:28 AEDT 2023


Use local_try_cmpxchg instead of local_cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old in
__perf_output_begin.  x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag,
so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg.

Also, local_try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when
cmpxchg fails. There is no need to re-read the value in the loop.

No functional change intended.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail.com>
---
 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 273a0fe7910a..e07c10f4d141 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -191,9 +191,10 @@ __perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 
 	perf_output_get_handle(handle);
 
+	offset = local_read(&rb->head);
 	do {
+		head = offset;
 		tail = READ_ONCE(rb->user_page->data_tail);
-		offset = head = local_read(&rb->head);
 		if (!rb->overwrite) {
 			if (unlikely(!ring_buffer_has_space(head, tail,
 							    perf_data_size(rb),
@@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ __perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 			head += size;
 		else
 			head -= size;
-	} while (local_cmpxchg(&rb->head, offset, head) != offset);
+	} while (!local_try_cmpxchg(&rb->head, &offset, head));
 
 	if (backward) {
 		offset = head;
-- 
2.39.2



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