Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: s390: use switch vs jump table in priv.c

[Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 11:21:26AM +0000, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> instead of having huge jump tables for function selection,
> lets use normal switch/case statements for the instruction
> handlers in priv.c
> 
> bloat-o-meter shows that the saving are even bigger than
> just the removed jump tables.

Which is not true since bloat-o-meter does not take the rodata section into
account, which grows by 1720 bytes with this commit.

> add/remove: 0/11 grow/shrink: 8/0 up/down: 1934/-10246 (-8312)
> Function                                     old     new   delta
> kvm_s390_handle_b2                            42     958    +916
> handle_iske                                  178     558    +380
> handle_rrbe                                  178     546    +368
> kvm_s390_handle_b9                            42     222    +180
> kvm_s390_handle_01                            42      74     +32
> kvm_s390_handle_eb                            42      70     +28
> handle_sckpf                                 176     204     +28
> handle_lctlg                                 628     630      +2
> handle_ptff                                   36       -     -36
> handle_sckpf.part                             78       -     -78
> handle_epsw                                  154       -    -154
> handle_stfl                                  316       -    -316
> handle_rrbe.part                             470       -    -470
> handle_iske.part                             482       -    -482
> handle_io_inst                               518       -    -518
> x01_handlers                                2048       -   -2048
> eb_handlers                                 2048       -   -2048
> b9_handlers                                 2048       -   -2048
> b2_handlers                                 2048       -   -2048
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>