[RFC PATCH glibc 31/34] hurd: Microoptimize _hurd_self_sigstate ()

Sergey Bugaev bugaevc@gmail.com
Sun Mar 19 15:10:14 GMT 2023


When THREAD_GETMEM is defined with inline assembly, the compiler may not
optimize away the two reads of _hurd_sigstate. Help it out a little bit
by only reading it once. This also makes for a slightly cleaner code.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Bugaev <bugaevc@gmail.com>
---
 hurd/hurd/signal.h | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hurd/hurd/signal.h b/hurd/hurd/signal.h
index c33f974b..662e955e 100644
--- a/hurd/hurd/signal.h
+++ b/hurd/hurd/signal.h
@@ -166,13 +166,15 @@ extern void _hurd_sigstate_delete (thread_t thread);
 _HURD_SIGNAL_H_EXTERN_INLINE struct hurd_sigstate *
 _hurd_self_sigstate (void)
 {
-  if (THREAD_GETMEM (THREAD_SELF, _hurd_sigstate) == NULL)
+  struct hurd_sigstate *ss = THREAD_GETMEM (THREAD_SELF, _hurd_sigstate);
+  if (__glibc_unlikely (ss == NULL))
     {
       thread_t self = __mach_thread_self ();
-      THREAD_SETMEM (THREAD_SELF, _hurd_sigstate, _hurd_thread_sigstate (self));
+      ss = _hurd_thread_sigstate (self);
+      THREAD_SETMEM (THREAD_SELF, _hurd_sigstate, ss);
       __mach_port_deallocate (__mach_task_self (), self);
     }
-  return THREAD_GETMEM (THREAD_SELF, _hurd_sigstate);
+  return ss;
 }
 # endif
 #endif
-- 
2.39.2



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