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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com>,
	"Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@protonmail.ch>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <wilal.deacon@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Chris Fries <cfries@google.com>,
	Dave Weinstein <olorin@google.com>,
	Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] printk: hash addresses printed with %p
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:00:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171026070003.GA25583@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9rdfLNZD1bhvA4Xh=kdEN-7-FSV8aU0y_ky3Ts2zoPd4Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 12:59:08AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> wrote:
> > How good is unlikely()?
> 
> It places that branch way at the bottom of the function so that it's
> less likely to pollute the icache.

But always measure it.  Lots of times (old numbers were 90% or so), we
get the marking wrong, so please, always benchmark the thing to verify
it actually is doing what you think it should be doing, otherwise it
could make the code worse.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-26  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-25  4:00 [PATCH v7] printk: hash addresses printed with %p Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-10-25 10:05 ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-25 22:27 ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-25 22:59   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-10-25 23:11     ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-26  7:00     ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-10-26  9:10       ` Tobin C. Harding
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-23 22:33 Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-23 23:00 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-10-24  0:31   ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-24 11:25     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-10-24 20:45       ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-25  3:49       ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-30 20:22         ` Steven Rostedt
2017-10-30 21:24           ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-10-31 14:22           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
     [not found] ` <87bmkw5owv.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
     [not found]   ` <20171024235755.GA15832@eros>
2017-10-25 19:02     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2017-10-25 22:14       ` Tobin C. Harding

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