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When a sizable code section is protected by a disabled static key, that
code gets into the instruction cache even though it's not executed and
consumes the cache, increasing cache misses. This can be remedied by
moving such code into a separate uninlined function.
On a Pixel6 phone, page allocation profiling overhead measured with
CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING=y and profiling disabled is:
baseline modified
Big core 4.93% 1.53%
Medium core 4.39% 1.41%
Little core 1.02% 0.36%
This improvement comes at the expense of the configuration when profiling
gets enabled, since there is now an additional function call. The overhead
from this additional call on Pixel6 is:
Big core 0.24%
Middle core 0.63%
Little core 1.1%
However this is negligible when compared with the overall overhead of the
memory allocation profiling when it is enabled.
On x86 this patch does not make noticeable difference because the overhead
with mem_alloc_profiling_key disabled is much lower (under 1%) to start
with, so any improvement is less visible and hard to distinguish from the
noise. The overhead from additional call when profiling is enabled is also
within noise levels.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250201231803.2661189-3-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: David Wang <00107082@163.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Zhenhua Huang <quic_zhenhuah@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.