tracing: Process constants for (un)likely() profiler
When running the likely/unlikely profiler, one of the results did not look accurate. It noted that the unlikely() in link_path_walk() was 100% incorrect. When I added a trace_printk() to see what was happening there, it became 80% correct! Looking deeper into what whas happening, I found that gcc split that if statement into two paths. One where the if statement became a constant, the other path a variable. The other path had the if statement always hit (making the unlikely there, always false), but since the #define unlikely() has: #define unlikely() (__builtin_constant_p(x) ? !!(x) : __branch_check__(x, 0)) Where constants are ignored by the branch profiler, the "constant" path made by the compiler was ignored, even though it was hit 80% of the time. By just passing the constant value to the __branch_check__() function and tracing it out of line (as always correct, as likely/unlikely isn't a factor for constants), then we get back the accurate readings of branches that were optimized by gcc causing part of the execution to become constant. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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@@ -200,8 +200,12 @@ void trace_likely_condition(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect)
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#endif /* CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER */
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void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect)
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void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val,
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int expect, int is_constant)
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{
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/* A constant is always correct */
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if (is_constant)
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val = expect;
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/*
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* I would love to have a trace point here instead, but the
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* trace point code is so inundated with unlikely and likely
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