locking/atomic/x86: Introduce arch_sync_try_cmpxchg()
Introduce the arch_sync_try_cmpxchg() macro to improve code using
sync_try_cmpxchg() locking primitive. The new definitions use existing
__raw_try_cmpxchg() macros, but use its own "lock; " prefix.
The new macros improve assembly of the cmpxchg loop in
evtchn_fifo_unmask() from drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c from:
57a: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax
57c: 78 52 js 5d0 <...>
57e: 89 c1 mov %eax,%ecx
580: 25 ff ff ff af and $0xafffffff,%eax
585: c7 04 24 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,(%rsp)
58c: 81 e1 ff ff ff ef and $0xefffffff,%ecx
592: 89 4c 24 04 mov %ecx,0x4(%rsp)
596: 89 44 24 08 mov %eax,0x8(%rsp)
59a: 8b 74 24 08 mov 0x8(%rsp),%esi
59e: 8b 44 24 04 mov 0x4(%rsp),%eax
5a2: f0 0f b1 32 lock cmpxchg %esi,(%rdx)
5a6: 89 04 24 mov %eax,(%rsp)
5a9: 8b 04 24 mov (%rsp),%eax
5ac: 39 c1 cmp %eax,%ecx
5ae: 74 07 je 5b7 <...>
5b0: a9 00 00 00 40 test $0x40000000,%eax
5b5: 75 c3 jne 57a <...>
<...>
to:
578: a9 00 00 00 40 test $0x40000000,%eax
57d: 74 2b je 5aa <...>
57f: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax
581: 78 40 js 5c3 <...>
583: 89 c1 mov %eax,%ecx
585: 25 ff ff ff af and $0xafffffff,%eax
58a: 81 e1 ff ff ff ef and $0xefffffff,%ecx
590: 89 4c 24 04 mov %ecx,0x4(%rsp)
594: 89 44 24 08 mov %eax,0x8(%rsp)
598: 8b 4c 24 08 mov 0x8(%rsp),%ecx
59c: 8b 44 24 04 mov 0x4(%rsp),%eax
5a0: f0 0f b1 0a lock cmpxchg %ecx,(%rdx)
5a4: 89 44 24 04 mov %eax,0x4(%rsp)
5a8: 75 30 jne 5da <...>
<...>
5da: 8b 44 24 04 mov 0x4(%rsp),%eax
5de: eb 98 jmp 578 <...>
The new code removes move instructions from 585: 5a6: and 5a9:
and the compare from 5ac:. Additionally, the compiler assumes that
cmpxchg success is more probable and optimizes code flow accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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