x86: Improve __phys_addr performance by making use of carry flags and inlining

This patch is meant to improve overall system performance when making use of
the __phys_addr call.  To do this I have implemented several changes.

First if CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is not defined __phys_addr is made an inline,
similar to how this is currently handled in 32 bit.  However in order to do
this it is required to export phys_base so that it is available if __phys_addr
is used in kernel modules.

The second change was to streamline the code by making use of the carry flag
on an add operation instead of performing a compare on a 64 bit value.  The
advantage to this is that it allows us to significantly reduce the overall
size of the call.  On my Xeon E5 system the entire __phys_addr inline call
consumes a little less than 32 bytes and 5 instructions.  I also applied
similar logic to the debug version of the function.  My testing shows that the
debug version of the function with this patch applied is slightly faster than
the non-debug version without the patch.

Finally I also applied the same logic changes to __virt_addr_valid since it
used the same general code flow as __phys_addr and could achieve similar gains
though these changes.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121116215315.8521.46270.stgit@ahduyck-cp1.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c b/arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c
index d2e2735..fd40d75 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c
@@ -8,33 +8,43 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
 unsigned long __phys_addr(unsigned long x)
 {
-	if (x >= __START_KERNEL_map) {
-		x -= __START_KERNEL_map;
-		VIRTUAL_BUG_ON(x >= KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE);
-		x += phys_base;
+	unsigned long y = x - __START_KERNEL_map;
+
+	/* use the carry flag to determine if x was < __START_KERNEL_map */
+	if (unlikely(x > y)) {
+		x = y + phys_base;
+
+		VIRTUAL_BUG_ON(y >= KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE);
 	} else {
-		VIRTUAL_BUG_ON(x < PAGE_OFFSET);
-		x -= PAGE_OFFSET;
-		VIRTUAL_BUG_ON(!phys_addr_valid(x));
+		x = y + (__START_KERNEL_map - PAGE_OFFSET);
+
+		/* carry flag will be set if starting x was >= PAGE_OFFSET */
+		VIRTUAL_BUG_ON((x > y) || !phys_addr_valid(x));
 	}
+
 	return x;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__phys_addr);
+#endif
 
 bool __virt_addr_valid(unsigned long x)
 {
-	if (x >= __START_KERNEL_map) {
-		x -= __START_KERNEL_map;
-		if (x >= KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE)
+	unsigned long y = x - __START_KERNEL_map;
+
+	/* use the carry flag to determine if x was < __START_KERNEL_map */
+	if (unlikely(x > y)) {
+		x = y + phys_base;
+
+		if (y >= KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE)
 			return false;
-		x += phys_base;
 	} else {
-		if (x < PAGE_OFFSET)
-			return false;
-		x -= PAGE_OFFSET;
-		if (!phys_addr_valid(x))
+		x = y + (__START_KERNEL_map - PAGE_OFFSET);
+
+		/* carry flag will be set if starting x was >= PAGE_OFFSET */
+		if ((x > y) || !phys_addr_valid(x))
 			return false;
 	}