Commit 12adfd88 authored Jul 23, 2016 by Chris Wilson Committed by Paul E. McKenney Sep 14, 2016

list: Expand list_first_entry_or_null()



Due to the use of READ_ONCE() in list_empty() the compiler cannot
optimise !list_empty() ? list_first_entry() : NULL very well. By
manually expanding list_first_entry_or_null() we can take advantage of
the READ_ONCE() to avoid the list element changing under the test while
the compiler can generate smaller code.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

parent 3563a438

include/linux/list.h

+5 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -381,8 +381,11 @@ static inline void list_splice_tail_init(struct list_head *list,
		*
		* Note that if the list is empty, it returns NULL.
		*/
		#define list_first_entry_or_null(ptr, type, member) \
		(!list_empty(ptr) ? list_first_entry(ptr, type, member) : NULL)
		#define list_first_entry_or_null(ptr, type, member) ({ \
		struct list_head *head__ = (ptr); \
		struct list_head *pos__ = READ_ONCE(head__->next); \
		pos__ != head__ ? list_entry(pos__, type, member) : NULL; \
		})

		/**
		* list_next_entry - get the next element in list

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