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The non-inline min heap API can result in an indirect function call to the custom swap function. This becomes particularly costly when CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE is enabled, as indirect function calls are expensive in this case. To address this, copy the code from lib/sort.c and provide a default builtin swap implementation that performs element swaps based on the element size. This change allows most users to avoid the overhead of indirect function calls, improving efficiency. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241020040200.939973-4-visitorckw@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Ching-Chun (Jim) Huang <jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw> Cc: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.