This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mtd: cfi: convert inline functions to macros

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: mtd-cfi-convert-inline-functions-to-macros.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 9e343e87d2c4c707ef8fae2844864d4dde3a2d13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:54:10 +0200 Subject: mtd: cfi: convert inline functions to macros

From: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de

commit 9e343e87d2c4c707ef8fae2844864d4dde3a2d13 upstream.

The map_word_() functions, dating back to linux-2.6.8, try to perform bitwise operations on a 'map_word' structure. This may have worked with compilers that were current then (gcc-3.4 or earlier), but end up being rather inefficient on any version I could try now (gcc-4.4 or higher). Specifically we hit a problem analyzed in gcc PR81715 where we fail to reuse the stack space for local variables.

This can be seen immediately in the stack consumption for cfi_staa_erase_varsize() and other functions that (with CONFIG_KASAN) can be up to 2200 bytes. Changing the inline functions into macros brings this down to 1280 bytes. Without KASAN, the same problem exists, but the stack consumption is lower to start with, my patch shrinks it from 920 to 496 bytes on with arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-5.4, and saves around 1KB in .text size for cfi_cmdset_0020.c, as it avoids copying map_word structures for each call to one of these helpers.

With the latest gcc-8 snapshot, the problem is fixed in upstream gcc, but nobody uses that yet, so we should still work around it in mainline kernels and probably backport the workaround to stable kernels as well. We had a couple of other functions that suffered from the same gcc bug, and all of those had a simpler workaround involving dummy variables in the inline function. Unfortunately that did not work here, the macro hack was the best I could come up with.

It would also be helpful to have someone to a little performance testing on the patch, to see how much it helps in terms of CPU utilitzation.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81715 Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Acked-by: Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- include/linux/mtd/map.h | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mtd/map.h +++ b/include/linux/mtd/map.h @@ -270,75 +270,67 @@ void map_destroy(struct mtd_info *mtd); #define INVALIDATE_CACHED_RANGE(map, from, size) \ do { if (map->inval_cache) map->inval_cache(map, from, size); } while (0)

- -static inline int map_word_equal(struct map_info *map, map_word val1, map_word val2) -{ - int i; - - for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) { - if (val1.x[i] != val2.x[i]) - return 0; - } - - return 1; -} - -static inline map_word map_word_and(struct map_info *map, map_word val1, map_word val2) -{ - map_word r; - int i; - - for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) - r.x[i] = val1.x[i] & val2.x[i]; - - return r; -} - -static inline map_word map_word_clr(struct map_info *map, map_word val1, map_word val2) -{ - map_word r; - int i; - - for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) - r.x[i] = val1.x[i] & ~val2.x[i]; - - return r; -} - -static inline map_word map_word_or(struct map_info *map, map_word val1, map_word val2) -{ - map_word r; - int i; - - for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) - r.x[i] = val1.x[i] | val2.x[i]; - - return r; -} - -static inline int map_word_andequal(struct map_info *map, map_word val1, map_word val2, map_word val3) -{ - int i; - - for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) { - if ((val1.x[i] & val2.x[i]) != val3.x[i]) - return 0; - } - - return 1; -} - -static inline int map_word_bitsset(struct map_info *map, map_word val1, map_word val2) -{ - int i; - - for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) { - if (val1.x[i] & val2.x[i]) - return 1; - } - - return 0; -} +#define map_word_equal(map, val1, val2) \ +({ \ + int i, ret = 1; \ + for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) \ + if ((val1).x[i] != (val2).x[i]) { \ + ret = 0; \ + break; \ + } \ + ret; \ +}) + +#define map_word_and(map, val1, val2) \ +({ \ + map_word r; \ + int i; \ + for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) \ + r.x[i] = (val1).x[i] & (val2).x[i]; \ + r; \ +}) + +#define map_word_clr(map, val1, val2) \ +({ \ + map_word r; \ + int i; \ + for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) \ + r.x[i] = (val1).x[i] & ~(val2).x[i]; \ + r; \ +}) + +#define map_word_or(map, val1, val2) \ +({ \ + map_word r; \ + int i; \ + for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) \ + r.x[i] = (val1).x[i] | (val2).x[i]; \ + r; \ +}) + +#define map_word_andequal(map, val1, val2, val3) \ +({ \ + int i, ret = 1; \ + for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) { \ + if (((val1).x[i] & (val2).x[i]) != (val2).x[i]) { \ + ret = 0; \ + break; \ + } \ + } \ + ret; \ +}) + +#define map_word_bitsset(map, val1, val2) \ +({ \ + int i, ret = 0; \ + for (i = 0; i < map_words(map); i++) { \ + if ((val1).x[i] & (val2).x[i]) { \ + ret = 1; \ + break; \ + } \ + } \ + ret; \ +})

static inline map_word map_word_load(struct map_info *map, const void *ptr) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@arndb.de are

queue-4.9/mtd-cfi-convert-inline-functions-to-macros.patch