Re: [PATCH] x86: simplify interrupt dispatch table

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 09:49:13PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Interrupt entry points are handled with the following code:
> Each 32-byte code block contains seven entry points
> 
> 		...
> 		[push][jump 22] // 4 bytes
> 		[push][jump 18] // 4 bytes
> 		[push][jump 14] // 4 bytes
> 		[push][jump 10] // 4 bytes
> 		[push][jump  6] // 4 bytes
> 		[push][jump  2] // 4 bytes
> 		[push][jump common_interrupt][padding] // 8 bytes
> 
> 		[push][jump]
> 		[push][jump]
> 		[push][jump]
> 		[push][jump]
> 		[push][jump]
> 		[push][jump]
> 		[push][jump common_interrupt][padding]
> 
> 		[padding_2]
> 	common_interrupt:
> 
> And there is a table which holds pointers to every entry point,
> IOW: to every push.
> 
> In cold cache, two jumps are still costlier than one, even though we get
> the benefit of them residing in the same cacheline.
> 
> This change replaces short jumps with near ones to common_interrupt, and pads
> every push+jump pair to 8 bytes. This way, each interrupt takes only one jump.
> 
> This change replaces ".p2align CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT" before dispatch table
> with ".align 8" - we do not need anything stronger than that.
> 
> The table of entry addresses (the interrupt[] array) is no longer
> necessary, the address of entries can be easily calculated as
> (irq_entries_start + i*8).
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   12546	      0	      0	  12546	   3102	entry_64.o.before
>   11626	      0	      0	  11626	   2d6a	entry_64.o
> 
> The size decrease is because 1656 bytes of .init.rodata are gone.
> That's initdata, though. The resident size does go up a bit.
> 
> Run-tested (32 and 64 bits).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> CC: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
> CC: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
> CC: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> CC: x86@kernel.org
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h |  5 ++---
>  arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S    | 41 ++++++++++-------------------------------
>  arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S    | 41 ++++++++++-------------------------------
>  arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c     |  3 ++-
>  arch/x86/lguest/boot.c        |  3 ++-
>  5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

Acked-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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