Re: in_irq_or_nmi()

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:12:19 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 09:58:17AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 05:15:00PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:  
> > > And I also verified it worked:
> > > 
> > >   0.63 â       mov    __preempt_count,%eax
> > >        â     free_hot_cold_page():
> > >   1.25 â       test   $0x1f0000,%eax
> > >        â     â jne    1e4
> > > 
> > > And this simplification also made the compiler change this into a
> > > unlikely branch, which is a micro-optimization (that I will leave up to
> > > the compiler).  
> > 
> > Excellent!  That said, I think we should define in_irq_or_nmi() in
> > preempt.h, rather than hiding it in the memory allocator.  And since we're
> > doing that, we might as well make it look like the other definitions:
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/preempt.h b/include/linux/preempt.h
> > index 7eeceac52dea..af98c29abd9d 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/preempt.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/preempt.h
> > @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
> >  #define in_interrupt()		(irq_count())
> >  #define in_serving_softirq()	(softirq_count() & SOFTIRQ_OFFSET)
> >  #define in_nmi()		(preempt_count() & NMI_MASK)
> > +#define in_irq_or_nmi()		(preempt_count() & (HARDIRQ_MASK | NMI_MASK))
> >  #define in_task()		(!(preempt_count() & \
> >  				   (NMI_MASK | HARDIRQ_MASK | SOFTIRQ_OFFSET)))
> >    
> 
> No, that's horrible. Also, wth is this about? A memory allocator that
> needs in_nmi()? That sounds beyond broken.

It is the other way around. We want to exclude NMI and HARDIRQ from
using the per-cpu-pages (pcp) lists "order-0 cache" (they will
fall-through using the normal buddy allocator path).

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer