[RFC PATCH 0/2] Switch ARM to generic find_bit() API

[Yury Norov]

Hi Russell, all,

I'd like to respin a patch that switches ARM to generic find_bit()
functions.

Generic code works on par with arch or better, according to my
testing [1], and with recent improvements merged in v6.1, it should
be even faster.

ARM already uses many generic find_bit() functions - those that it
doesn't implement. So we are talking about migrating a subset of the
API; most of find_bit() family has only generic implementation on ARM.

The only concern about this migration is that ARM code supports
byte-aligned bitmap addresses, while generic code is optimized for
word-aligned bitmaps.

In my practice, I've never seen unaligned bitmaps. But to check that on
ARM, I added a run-time check for bitmap alignment. I gave it run on
several architectures and found nothing.

Can you please check that on your hardware and compare performance of
generic vs arch code for you? If everything is OK, I suggest switching
ARM to generic find_bit() completely.

Thanks,
Yury

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YuWk3titnOiQACzC@yury-laptop/

Yury Norov (2):
  bitmap: add sanity check function for find_bit()
  arm: drop arch implementation for find_bit() functions

 arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h |  63 -----------
 arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c    |  11 --
 arch/arm/lib/Makefile         |   2 +-
 arch/arm/lib/findbit.S        | 193 ----------------------------------
 include/linux/find.h          |  35 ++++++
 lib/Kconfig.debug             |   7 ++
 6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 268 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/lib/findbit.S

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