proc: calculate end pointer for /proc/*/* lookup at compile time
authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Thu, 7 Feb 2019 00:58:28 +0000 (11:58 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 8 Feb 2019 09:30:53 +0000 (20:30 +1100)
commit0628dcc38a18f7d3f48b849ba069bfff90ac50cc
tree1b6d0c59d69bbb50adf044029849233eabb78b7b
parente32a7437eb9c2a56fc17a12e01cc99bf68829843
proc: calculate end pointer for /proc/*/* lookup at compile time

Compilers like to transform loops like

for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
[use p[i]]
}

into
for (p = p0; p < end; p++) {
...
}

Do it by hand, so that it results in overall simpler loop
and smaller code.

Space savings:

$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-001 ../obj/vmlinux
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/1 up/down: 4/-9 (-5)
Function                                     old     new   delta
proc_tid_base_lookup                          17      19      +2
proc_tgid_base_lookup                         17      19      +2
proc_pident_lookup                           179     170      -9

The same could be done to proc_pident_readdir(), but the code becomes
bigger for some reason.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114200422.GB9680@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
fs/proc/base.c