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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-07-04 11:43:18 +0100
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-09-30 16:42:56 +0100
commitf38d999c4d16fc0fce4270374f15fbb2d8713c09 (patch)
treec91a2a9fd5505a27ee0e8d03141842b07cc4e0c9 /arch/arm/include
parent9bb17be062de6f5a9c9643258951aa0935652ec3 (diff)
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ARM: atomics: prefetch the destination word for write prior to strex
The cost of changing a cacheline from shared to exclusive state can be significant, especially when this is triggered by an exclusive store, since it may result in having to retry the transaction. This patch prefixes our atomic access implementations with pldw instructions (on CPUs which support them) to try and grab the line in exclusive state from the start. Only the barrier-less functions are updated, since memory barriers can limit the usefulness of prefetching data. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h
index da1c77d..55ffc3b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#define __ASM_ARM_ATOMIC_H
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/prefetch.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/irqflags.h>
#include <asm/barrier.h>
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ static inline void atomic_add(int i, atomic_t *v)
unsigned long tmp;
int result;
+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
__asm__ __volatile__("@ atomic_add\n"
"1: ldrex %0, [%3]\n"
" add %0, %0, %4\n"
@@ -79,6 +81,7 @@ static inline void atomic_sub(int i, atomic_t *v)
unsigned long tmp;
int result;
+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
__asm__ __volatile__("@ atomic_sub\n"
"1: ldrex %0, [%3]\n"
" sub %0, %0, %4\n"
@@ -138,6 +141,7 @@ static inline void atomic_clear_mask(unsigned long mask, unsigned long *addr)
{
unsigned long tmp, tmp2;
+ prefetchw(addr);
__asm__ __volatile__("@ atomic_clear_mask\n"
"1: ldrex %0, [%3]\n"
" bic %0, %0, %4\n"
@@ -283,6 +287,7 @@ static inline void atomic64_set(atomic64_t *v, u64 i)
{
u64 tmp;
+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
__asm__ __volatile__("@ atomic64_set\n"
"1: ldrexd %0, %H0, [%2]\n"
" strexd %0, %3, %H3, [%2]\n"
@@ -299,6 +304,7 @@ static inline void atomic64_add(u64 i, atomic64_t *v)
u64 result;
unsigned long tmp;
+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
__asm__ __volatile__("@ atomic64_add\n"
"1: ldrexd %0, %H0, [%3]\n"
" adds %0, %0, %4\n"
@@ -339,6 +345,7 @@ static inline void atomic64_sub(u64 i, atomic64_t *v)
u64 result;
unsigned long tmp;
+ prefetchw(&v->counter);
__asm__ __volatile__("@ atomic64_sub\n"
"1: ldrexd %0, %H0, [%3]\n"
" subs %0, %0, %4\n"
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