Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: stacktrace: use non-atomic __set_bit

[Mark Rutland]

On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 01:50:59AM +0200, andrey.konovalov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Use the non-atomic version of set_bit() in arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c,
> as there is no concurrent accesses to frame->prev_type.
> 
> This speeds up stack trace collection and improves the boot time of
> Generic KASAN by 2-5%.
> 
> Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

Mark.

> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> index 33e96ae4b15f..03593d451b0a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static int notrace unwind_frame(struct task_struct *tsk,
>  		if (fp <= frame->prev_fp)
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  	} else {
> -		set_bit(frame->prev_type, frame->stacks_done);
> +		__set_bit(frame->prev_type, frame->stacks_done);
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>