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linux/lib/extable.c
Eric Dumazet 15ae02baf0 lib/extable.c: remove an expensive integer divide in search_extable()
Actual code let compiler generates idiv instruction on x86.

Using a right shift is OK here and readable as well.

Before patch
   10:   57                      push   %edi
   11:   56                      push   %esi
   12:   89 d6                   mov    %edx,%esi
   14:   53                      push   %ebx
   15:   89 c3                   mov    %eax,%ebx
   17:   eb 22                   jmp    3b <search_extable+0x2b>
   19:   89 f0                   mov    %esi,%eax
   1b:   ba 02 00 00 00          mov    $0x2,%edx
   20:   29 d8                   sub    %ebx,%eax
   22:   89 d7                   mov    %edx,%edi
   24:   c1 f8 03                sar    $0x3,%eax
   27:   99                      cltd
   28:   f7 ff                   idiv   %edi
   2a:   8d 04 c3                lea    (%ebx,%eax,8),%eax
   2d:   39 08                   cmp    %ecx,(%eax)
...

After patch

00000010 <search_extable>:
   10:   53                      push   %ebx
   11:   89 c3                   mov    %eax,%ebx
   13:   eb 18                   jmp    2d <search_extable+0x1d>
   15:   89 d0                   mov    %edx,%eax
   17:   29 d8                   sub    %ebx,%eax
   19:   c1 f8 04                sar    $0x4,%eax
   1c:   8d 04 c3                lea    (%ebx,%eax,8),%eax
   1f:   39 08                   cmp    %ecx,(%eax)
...

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00

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/*
* Derived from arch/ppc/mm/extable.c and arch/i386/mm/extable.c.
*
* Copyright (C) 2004 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/sort.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE
/*
* The exception table needs to be sorted so that the binary
* search that we use to find entries in it works properly.
* This is used both for the kernel exception table and for
* the exception tables of modules that get loaded.
*/
static int cmp_ex(const void *a, const void *b)
{
const struct exception_table_entry *x = a, *y = b;
/* avoid overflow */
if (x->insn > y->insn)
return 1;
if (x->insn < y->insn)
return -1;
return 0;
}
void sort_extable(struct exception_table_entry *start,
struct exception_table_entry *finish)
{
sort(start, finish - start, sizeof(struct exception_table_entry),
cmp_ex, NULL);
}
#endif
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SEARCH_EXTABLE
/*
* Search one exception table for an entry corresponding to the
* given instruction address, and return the address of the entry,
* or NULL if none is found.
* We use a binary search, and thus we assume that the table is
* already sorted.
*/
const struct exception_table_entry *
search_extable(const struct exception_table_entry *first,
const struct exception_table_entry *last,
unsigned long value)
{
while (first <= last) {
const struct exception_table_entry *mid;
mid = ((last - first) >> 1) + first;
/*
* careful, the distance between value and insn
* can be larger than MAX_LONG:
*/
if (mid->insn < value)
first = mid + 1;
else if (mid->insn > value)
last = mid - 1;
else
return mid;
}
return NULL;
}
#endif