I don't think that's an optimization; it's an attempt to avoid UB. In that
sense, it's explicitly an anti-optimization....

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:43 PM, 'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh, I would not have made any comment, had I not seen the silly
> optimization in place. Likely 1993 era 😀
> No optimization in place, meant "we do not care at this point", which I
> agree in this case.
> But the code was suggesting "we do care", hence a much better way to do it.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Also, bear in mind that this is right before we run the memory allocator.
>> Shaving a few cycles off here is kind of like chipping a pebble off of an
>> asteroid.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Numbers of it didn't happen.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:49 PM, 'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The MUL_NO_OVERFLOW thing makes little sense in the CPUs we are
>>>> targeting.
>>>> A couple of mis-predicted branches are more expensive than a DIV (~20
>>>> cycles in today Intel).
>>>> Much faster:
>>>>
>>>> typedef unsigned __int128 uint128_t;
>>>>
>>>> {
>>>>      uint128_t n = (uint128_t) nmemb * (uint128_t) size;
>>>>
>>>>     if (n > SIZE_MAX) foo();
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --------------------
>>>> typedef unsigned __int128 u128;
>>>>
>>>> static const unsigned long ulmax = ~0UL;
>>>>
>>>> unsigned long oc(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
>>>> {
>>>>     u128 m = (u128) a * (u128) b;
>>>>
>>>>     if (m > ulmax)
>>>>         m = 0;
>>>>
>>>>     return (unsigned long) m;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> oc:
>>>>     movq    %rdi, %rax
>>>>     mulq    %rsi
>>>>     movq    %rax, %r9
>>>>     xorl    %eax, %eax
>>>>     testq   %rdx, %rdx
>>>>     cmove   %r9, %rax
>>>>     ret
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Barret Rhoden <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> One thing to be careful of is that these functions can fail and return
>>>>> 0,
>>>>> regardless of your kmalloc flags.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <[email protected]>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  kern/include/kmalloc.h   | 5 +++--
>>>>>  kern/src/kreallocarray.c | 9 +++++++++
>>>>>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/kern/include/kmalloc.h b/kern/include/kmalloc.h
>>>>> index 268cf2985ddb..26f23c1754c0 100644
>>>>> --- a/kern/include/kmalloc.h
>>>>> +++ b/kern/include/kmalloc.h
>>>>> @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
>>>>>  #define KMALLOC_LARGEST KMALLOC_SMALLEST << NUM_KMALLOC_CACHES
>>>>>
>>>>>  void kmalloc_init(void);
>>>>> -void* kmalloc(size_t size, int flags);
>>>>> -void* kzmalloc(size_t size, int flags);
>>>>> +void *kmalloc(size_t size, int flags);
>>>>> +void *kmalloc_array(size_t nmemb, size_t size, int flags);
>>>>> +void *kzmalloc(size_t size, int flags);
>>>>>  void *kmalloc_align(size_t size, int flags, size_t align);
>>>>>  void *kzmalloc_align(size_t size, int flags, size_t align);
>>>>>  void *krealloc(void *buf, size_t size, int flags);
>>>>> diff --git a/kern/src/kreallocarray.c b/kern/src/kreallocarray.c
>>>>> index d099721e0406..505159917317 100644
>>>>> --- a/kern/src/kreallocarray.c
>>>>> +++ b/kern/src/kreallocarray.c
>>>>> @@ -34,3 +34,12 @@ void *kreallocarray(void *optr, size_t nmemb,
>>>>> size_t size, int flags)
>>>>>         }
>>>>>         return krealloc(optr, size * nmemb, flags);
>>>>>  }
>>>>> +
>>>>> +void *kmalloc_array(size_t nmemb, size_t size, int flags)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +       if (((nmemb >= MUL_NO_OVERFLOW) || (size >= MUL_NO_OVERFLOW))
>>>>> &&
>>>>> +           (nmemb > 0) && ((SIZE_MAX / nmemb) < size)) {
>>>>> +               return NULL;
>>>>> +       }
>>>>> +       return kmalloc(size * nmemb, flags);
>>>>> +}
>>>>> --
>>>>> 2.6.0.rc2.230.g3dd15c0
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