resource: avoid unnecessary resource tree walking in __region_intersects()
authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:27:35 +0000 (20:27 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 6 Nov 2024 21:36:37 +0000 (13:36 -0800)
commitd7ce9c73da54a096311edbf4688b78b179dd79bc
tree4b3b9a6e49833b690b33b93356f29ac5ca8b91fc
parent77e94b0496ef39b759f23b4ece8c434a4b5c2e47
resource: avoid unnecessary resource tree walking in __region_intersects()

Currently, if __region_intersects() finds any overlapped but unmatched
resource, it walks the descendant resource tree to check for overlapped
and matched descendant resources using for_each_resource().  However, in
current kernel, for_each_resource() iterates not only the descendant tree,
but also subsequent sibling trees in certain scenarios.  While this
doesn't introduce bugs, it makes code hard to be understood and
potentially inefficient.

So, the patch revises next_resource() and for_each_resource() and makes
for_each_resource() traverse the subtree under the specified subtree root
only.  Test shows that this avoids unnecessary resource tree walking in
__region_intersects().

For the example resource tree as follows,

  X
  |
  A----D----E
  |
  B--C

if 'A' is the overlapped but unmatched resource, original kernel
iterates 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E' when it walks the descendant tree.  While
the patched kernel iterates only 'B', 'C'.

Thanks David Hildenbrand for providing a good resource tree example.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241029122735.79164-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/resource.c