[PATCH 0/3] entry: inline syscall enter/exit functions

[Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>]

Hi List,

looking into the performance of syscall entry/exit after s390 switched
to generic entry showed that there's quite some overhead calling some
of the entry/exit work functions even when there's nothing to do.
This patchset moves the entry and exit function to entry-common.h, so
non inlined code gets only called when there is some work pending.

I wrote a small program that just issues invalid syscalls in a loop.
On an s390 machine, this results in the following numbers:

without this series:

# ./syscall 1000000000
runtime: 94.886581s / per-syscall 9.488658e-08s

with this series:

./syscall 1000000000
runtime: 84.732391s / per-syscall 8.473239e-08s

so the time required for one syscall dropped from 94.8ns to
84.7ns, which is a drop of about 11%.

Sven Schnelle (3):
  entry: move exit to usermode functions to header file
  move enter_from_user_mode() to header file
  entry: move syscall_enter_from_user_mode() to header file

 include/linux/entry-common.h | 137 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 kernel/entry/common.c        | 145 ++---------------------------------
 2 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)

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