Reduce the number of expensive division instructions done by _parse_integer()

_parse_integer() does one or two division instructions (which are slow)
per digit parsed to perform the overflow check.

Furthermore, these are particularly expensive examples of division
instruction as the number of clock cycles required to complete them may
go up with the position of the most significant set bit in the dividend:

	if (*res > div_u64(ULLONG_MAX - val, base))

which is as maximal as possible.

Worse, on 32-bit arches, more than one of these division instructions
may be required per digit.

So, assuming we don't support a base of more than 16, skip the check if the
top nibble of the result is not set at this point.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
[ Changed it to not dereference the pointer all the time - even if the
  compiler can and does optimize it away, the code just looks cleaner.
  And edited the top nybble test slightly to make the code generated on
  x86-64 better in the loop - test against a hoisted constant instead of
  shifting and testing the result ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/lib/kstrtox.c b/lib/kstrtox.c
index 7a94c8f..b1dd3e7 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/kstrtox.c
+++ b/lib/kstrtox.c
@@ -44,12 +44,13 @@ const char *_parse_integer_fixup_radix(const char *s, unsigned int *base)
  *
  * Don't you dare use this function.
  */
-unsigned int _parse_integer(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res)
+unsigned int _parse_integer(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *p)
 {
+       unsigned long long res;
        unsigned int rv;
        int overflow;
 
-       *res = 0;
+       res = 0;
        rv = 0;
        overflow = 0;
        while (*s) {
@@ -64,12 +65,19 @@ unsigned int _parse_integer(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long
 
                if (val >= base)
                        break;
-               if (*res > div_u64(ULLONG_MAX - val, base))
-                       overflow = 1;
-               *res = *res * base + val;
+               /*
+                * Check for overflow only if we are within range of
+                * it in the max base we support (16)
+                */
+               if (unlikely(res & (~0ull << 60))) {
+                       if (res > div_u64(ULLONG_MAX - val, base))
+                               overflow = 1;
+               }
+               res = res * base + val;
                rv++;
                s++;
        }
+       *p = res;
        if (overflow)
                rv |= KSTRTOX_OVERFLOW;
        return rv;