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| author | Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> | 2009-10-13 16:33:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-10-14 08:13:53 +0200 |
| commit | 194ec34184869f0de1cf255c924fc5299e1b3d27 (patch) | |
| tree | 7eb411e56f381b65bcafd0aa750f6f6705f3e451 /arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | |
| parent | 1bac0497ef9af8d933860672223e38bd6ac4934a (diff) | |
function-graph/x86: Replace unbalanced ret with jmp
The function graph tracer replaces the return address with a hook
to trace the exit of the function call. This hook will finish by
returning to the real location the function should return to.
But the current implementation uses a ret to jump to the real
return location. This causes a imbalance between calls and ret.
That is the original function does a call, the ret goes to the
handler and then the handler does a ret without a matching call.
Although the function graph tracer itself still breaks the branch
predictor by replacing the original ret, by using a second ret and
causing an imbalance, it breaks the predictor even more.
This patch replaces the ret with a jmp to keep the calls and ret
balanced. I tested this on one box and it showed a 1.7% increase in
performance. Another box only showed a small 0.3% increase. But no
box that I tested this on showed a decrease in performance by
making this change.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091013203425.042034383@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S index c097e7d607c..7d52e9da5e0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S @@ -1185,17 +1185,14 @@ END(ftrace_graph_caller) .globl return_to_handler return_to_handler: - pushl $0 pushl %eax - pushl %ecx pushl %edx movl %ebp, %eax call ftrace_return_to_handler - movl %eax, 0xc(%esp) + movl %eax, %ecx popl %edx - popl %ecx popl %eax - ret + jmp *%ecx #endif .section .rodata,"a" |