Re: [PATCH] all: remove GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Jun 07 2021 - 11:39:56 EST


On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 04:34:21PM -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> In the 5.12 cycle we enabled the GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT config option
> for ARM64 and MIPS. It increased performance and shrunk .text size; and
> so far I didn't receive any negative feedback on the change.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arch/20210225135700.1381396-1-yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> I think it's time to make all architectures use find_{first,last}_bit()
> unconditionally and remove the corresponding config option.
>
> This patch doesn't introduce functional changes for arc, arm64, mips,
> s390 and x86 because they already enable GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT. There
> will be no changes for arm because it implements find_{first,last}_bit
> in arch code. For other architectures I expect improvement both in
> performance and .text size.

Subject like s/all:/arch:/.

> It would be great if people with an access to real hardware would share
> the output of bloat-o-meter and lib/find_bit_benchmark.

This is rather comment (should be below cutter '---' line).

Anyway, seems good to my by the code:
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arc/Kconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 -
> arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 -
> arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 -
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
> arch/x86/um/Kconfig | 1 -
> include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h | 12 ------------
> lib/Kconfig | 3 ---
> 8 files changed, 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arc/Kconfig b/arch/arc/Kconfig
> index bc8d6aecfbbd..9c991ba50db3 100644
> --- a/arch/arc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arc/Kconfig
> @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ config ARC
> select COMMON_CLK
> select DMA_DIRECT_REMAP
> select GENERIC_ATOMIC64 if !ISA_ARCV2 || !(ARC_HAS_LL64 && ARC_HAS_LLSC)
> - select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
> # for now, we don't need GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE, CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP
> select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
> select GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index e09a9591af45..9d5b36f7d981 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ config ARM64
> select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
> select GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES
> select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
> - select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
> select GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
> select GENERIC_IRQ_IPI
> select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
> diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> index b72458215d20..3ddae7918386 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ config MIPS
> select GENERIC_ATOMIC64 if !64BIT
> select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
> select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
> - select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
> select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
> select GENERIC_IOMAP
> select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
> diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
> index c1ff874e6c2e..3a10ceb8a097 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
> @@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ config S390
> select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
> select GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES
> select GENERIC_ENTRY
> - select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
> select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
> select GENERIC_PTDUMP
> select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index b83364a15d34..6a7d8305365e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ config X86
> select GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES
> select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
> select GENERIC_ENTRY
> - select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
> select GENERIC_IOMAP
> select GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK if SMP
> select GENERIC_IRQ_MATRIX_ALLOCATOR if X86_LOCAL_APIC
> diff --git a/arch/x86/um/Kconfig b/arch/x86/um/Kconfig
> index 95d26a69088b..40d6a06e41c8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/um/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/um/Kconfig
> @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ endmenu
>
> config UML_X86
> def_bool y
> - select GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
>
> config 64BIT
> bool "64-bit kernel" if "$(SUBARCH)" = "x86"
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h b/include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h
> index 0d132ee2a291..8a7b70c79e15 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h
> @@ -95,8 +95,6 @@ unsigned long find_next_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size,
> }
> #endif
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
> -
> /**
> * find_first_bit - find the first set bit in a memory region
> * @addr: The address to start the search at
> @@ -136,16 +134,6 @@ unsigned long find_first_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size)
>
> return _find_first_zero_bit(addr, size);
> }
> -#else /* CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT */
> -
> -#ifndef find_first_bit
> -#define find_first_bit(addr, size) find_next_bit((addr), (size), 0)
> -#endif
> -#ifndef find_first_zero_bit
> -#define find_first_zero_bit(addr, size) find_next_zero_bit((addr), (size), 0)
> -#endif
> -
> -#endif /* CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT */
>
> #ifndef find_last_bit
> /**
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
> index a38cc61256f1..8346b3181214 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig
> @@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ config GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER
> config GENERIC_NET_UTILS
> bool
>
> -config GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
> - bool
> -
> source "lib/math/Kconfig"
>
> config NO_GENERIC_PCI_IOPORT_MAP
> --
> 2.25.1
>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko