list: Expand list_first_entry_or_null()
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 18:27:50 +0000 (19:27 +0100)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 19:57:43 +0000 (12:57 -0700)
commit12adfd882c5f37548acaba4f043a158b3c54468b
tree83c46e074a1044db2364cd712111550c994c3bc8
parent3563a438f124cb0b8cfd350c86de2f26c63d8837
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>
include/linux/list.h