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Commit d5a572a4 authored by Alexey Dobriyan's avatar Alexey Dobriyan Committed by Linus Torvalds
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proc: calculate end pointer for /proc/*/* lookup at compile time



Compilers like to transform loops like

	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
		[use p[i]]
	}

into
	for (p = p0; p < end; p++) {
		...
	}

Do it by hand, so that it results in overall simpler loop
and smaller code.

Space savings:

	$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-001 ../obj/vmlinux
	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/1 up/down: 4/-9 (-5)
	Function                                     old     new   delta
	proc_tid_base_lookup                          17      19      +2
	proc_tgid_base_lookup                         17      19      +2
	proc_pident_lookup                           179     170      -9

The same could be done to proc_pident_readdir(), but the code becomes
bigger for some reason.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: merge fix for proc_pident_lookup() API change]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190131160135.4a8ae70b@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114200422.GB9680@avx2
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b5420237
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