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device_cgroup: avoid access to ->i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission()

The routine gets called for every path component during lookup.
->i_mode is going to be cached on account of permission checks, while
->i_rdev is an area which is most likely cache-cold.

gcc 14.2 is kind enough to emit one branch:
movzwl (%rbx),%eax
mov %eax,%edx
and $0xb000,%dx
cmp $0x2000,%dx
je 11bc <inode_permission+0xec>

This patch is lazy in that I don't know if the ->i_rdev branch makes
any sense with the newly added mode check upfront. I am not changing any
semantics here though.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250416221626.2710239-3-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

authored by

Mateusz Guzik and committed by
Christian Brauner
4ef4ac36 875ccc0d

+4 -3
+4 -3
include/linux/device_cgroup.h
··· 18 18 { 19 19 short type, access = 0; 20 20 21 + if (likely(!S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode))) 22 + return 0; 23 + 21 24 if (likely(!inode->i_rdev)) 22 25 return 0; 23 26 24 27 if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)) 25 28 type = DEVCG_DEV_BLOCK; 26 - else if (S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode)) 29 + else /* S_ISCHR by the test above */ 27 30 type = DEVCG_DEV_CHAR; 28 - else 29 - return 0; 30 31 31 32 if (mask & MAY_WRITE) 32 33 access |= DEVCG_ACC_WRITE;