include/linux/slab.h: fix sparse warning in kmalloc_type()
Multiple people have reported the following sparse warning: ./include/linux/slab.h:332:43: warning: dubious: x & !y The minimal fix would be to change the logical & to boolean &&, which emits the same code, but Andrew has suggested that the branch-avoiding tricks are maybe not worthwile. David Laight provided a nice comparison of disassembly of multiple variants, which shows that the current version produces a 4 deep dependency chain, and fixing the sparse warning by changing logical and to multiplication emits an IMUL, making it even more expensive. The code as rewritten by this patch yielded the best disassembly, with a single predictable branch for the most common case, and a ternary operator for the rest, which gcc seems to compile without a branch or cmov by itself. The result should be more readable, without a sparse warning and probably also faster for the common case. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/80340595-d7c5-97b9-4f6c-23fa893a91e9@suse.cz Fixes: 1291523f ("mm, slab/slub: introduce kmalloc-reclaimable caches") Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reported-by: Darryl T. Agostinelli <dagostinelli@gmail.com> Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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