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authorJinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>2025-12-01 20:06:33 +0800
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2026-01-05 16:47:48 +0000
commit98cc091262effcdbdeb1c2ee0a25981aefd2274c (patch)
tree1c698710e227274819431629b3a0b279174af15c /tools/perf/lib/Documentation/tutorial/git@git.tavy.me:linux.git
parent35c3dcb1ac2c7e347b38f3b0bccb0a2d1dbda25c (diff)
arm64: Avoid memcpy() for syscall_get_arguments()
Do not use memcpy() to extract syscall arguments from struct pt_regs but rather just perform direct assignments. Update syscall_set_arguments() too to keep syscall_get_arguments() and syscall_set_arguments() in sync. With Generic Entry patch[1] and turn on audit, the performance benchmarks from perf bench basic syscall on kunpeng920 gives roughly a 1% performance uplift. | Metric | W/O this patch | With this patch | Change | | ---------- | -------------- | --------------- | --------- | | Total time | 2.241 [sec] | 2.211 [sec] | ↓1.36% | | usecs/op | 0.224157 | 0.221146 | ↓1.36% | | ops/sec | 4,461,157 | 4,501,409 | ↑0.9% | Disassembly shows that using direct assignment causes syscall_set_arguments() to be inlined and cuts the instruction count by five or six compared to memcpy(). Because __audit_syscall_entry() only uses four syscall arguments, the compiler has also elided the copy of regs->regs[4] and regs->regs[5]. Before: <syscall_get_arguments.constprop.0>: aa0103e2 mov x2, x1 91002003 add x3, x0, #0x8 f9408804 ldr x4, [x0, #272] f8008444 str x4, [x2], #8 a9409404 ldp x4, x5, [x0, #8] a9009424 stp x4, x5, [x1, #8] a9418400 ldp x0, x1, [x0, #24] a9010440 stp x0, x1, [x2, #16] f9401060 ldr x0, [x3, #32] f9001040 str x0, [x2, #32] d65f03c0 ret d503201f nop After: a9408e82 ldp x2, x3, [x20, #8] 2a1603e0 mov w0, w22 f9400e84 ldr x4, [x20, #24] f9408a81 ldr x1, [x20, #272] 9401c4ba bl ffff800080215ca8 <__audit_syscall_entry> This also aligns the implementation with x86 and RISC-V. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251126071446.3234218-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com/ Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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