lib/find_bit.c: micro-optimise find_next_*_bit

This saves 32 bytes on my x86-64 build, mostly due to alignment
considerations and sharing more code between find_next_bit and
find_next_zero_bit, but it does save a couple of instructions.

There's really two parts to this commit:
 - First, the first half of the test: (!nbits || start >= nbits) is
   trivially a subset of the second half, since nbits and start are both
   unsigned
 - Second, while looking at the disassembly, I noticed that GCC was
   predicting the branch taken. Since this is a failure case, it's
   clearly the less likely of the two branches, so add an unlikely() to
   override GCC's heuristics.

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Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Yury Norov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Matthew Wilcox 2017-02-24 15:00:58 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit e4afd2e556
2 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static unsigned long _find_next_bit(const unsigned long *addr,
{
unsigned long tmp;
if (!nbits || start >= nbits)
if (unlikely(start >= nbits))
return nbits;
tmp = addr[start / BITS_PER_LONG] ^ invert;