linux/include/asm-generic
Matthew Wilcox 27df89689e locking/spinlocks: Remove an instruction from spin and write locks
Both spin locks and write locks currently do:

 f0 0f b1 17             lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi)
 85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
 75 05                   jne    [slowpath]

This 'test' insn is superfluous; the cmpxchg insn sets the Z flag
appropriately.  Peter pointed out that using atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire()
will let the compiler know this is true.  Comparing before/after
disassemblies show the only effect is to remove this insn.

Take this opportunity to make the spin & write lock code resemble each
other more closely and have similar likely() hints.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180820162639.GC25153@bombadil.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-02 09:49:42 +02:00
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