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[PATCH v3 07/14] perf/hw_breakpoint: Make hw_breakpoint_weight() inlinable

From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Date: 2022-07-04 15:06:47
Also in: linux-perf-users, linux-sh, lkml
Subsystem: performance events subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds

Due to being a __weak function, hw_breakpoint_weight() will cause the
compiler to always emit a call to it. This generates unnecessarily bad
code (register spills etc.) for no good reason; in fact it appears in
profiles of `perf bench -r 100 breakpoint thread -b 4 -p 128 -t 512`:

    ...
    0.70%  [kernel]       [k] hw_breakpoint_weight
    ...

While a small percentage, no architecture defines its own
hw_breakpoint_weight() nor are there users outside hw_breakpoint.c,
which makes the fact it is currently __weak a poor choice.

Change hw_breakpoint_weight()'s definition to follow a similar protocol
to hw_breakpoint_slots(), such that if <asm/hw_breakpoint.h> defines
hw_breakpoint_weight(), we'll use it instead.

The result is that it is inlined and no longer shows up in profiles.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
---
 include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h | 1 -
 kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h b/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
index a3fb846705eb..f319bd26b030 100644
--- a/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ extern int dbg_reserve_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp);
 extern int dbg_release_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp);
 extern int reserve_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp);
 extern void release_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp);
-int hw_breakpoint_weight(struct perf_event *bp);
 int arch_reserve_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp);
 void arch_release_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp);
 void arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp);
diff --git a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
index 9fb66d358d81..9c9bf17666a5 100644
--- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -124,10 +124,12 @@ static __init int init_breakpoint_slots(void)
 }
 #endif
 
-__weak int hw_breakpoint_weight(struct perf_event *bp)
+#ifndef hw_breakpoint_weight
+static inline int hw_breakpoint_weight(struct perf_event *bp)
 {
 	return 1;
 }
+#endif
 
 static inline enum bp_type_idx find_slot_idx(u64 bp_type)
 {
-- 
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