No, the MUL checks are in place explicitly to try to avoid every time into
the DIV.
I feel my hair growing back, thinking at the times that code made sense ☺


On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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);
>>>>>> +}
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