[PATCH] Fix kmem_cache_free performance regression in slab

[Matthew Wilcox]

The database performance group have found that half the cycles spent
in kmem_cache_free are spent in this one call to BUG_ON.  Moving it
into the CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG-only function cache_free_debugcheck() is a
performance win of almost 0.5% on their particular benchmark.

The call was added as part of commit ddc2e812d592457747c4367fb73edcaa8e1e49ff
with the comment that "overhead should be minimal".  It may have been
minimal at the time, but it isn't now.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index cfa6be4..6e16431 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2881,6 +2881,8 @@ static void *cache_free_debugcheck(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp,
 	unsigned int objnr;
 	struct slab *slabp;
 
+	BUG_ON(virt_to_cache(objp) != cachep);
+
 	objp -= obj_offset(cachep);
 	kfree_debugcheck(objp);
 	page = virt_to_head_page(objp);
@@ -3759,8 +3761,6 @@ void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	BUG_ON(virt_to_cache(objp) != cachep);
-
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	debug_check_no_locks_freed(objp, obj_size(cachep));
 	__cache_free(cachep, objp);

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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