From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL arch support.
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:57:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150610155709.GH2753@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150610145804.GG2753@linux-mips.org>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 04:58:04PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 03:14:43PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>
> > If there is anything wrong, please report it in this thread:
> > https://marc.info/?t=143332955700003
>
>
> > locking/ cmpxchg-local : TODO | HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL # arch supports the this_cpu_cmpxchg() API
>
> This one was easy - we have the functions in the code just no "select
> HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL" Kconfig.
Something's wrong there. The new file
Documentation/features/locking/cmpxchg-local/arch-support.txt in linux-next
claims correctly that only s390 and x86 define HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL. And a
git grep -w cmpxchg_local finds that in addition to these alpha, arm, arm64,
avr32, blackfin, c6x, frv, ia64, m32r, m68k, mips, parisc, powerpc, sparc,
unicore32 and xtensa define cmpxchg_local.
These architectures seem to not define cmpxchg_local in their arch/ dir:
arc cris hexagon metag microblaze mn10300 nios2 openrisc score sh tile um
Microblaze and nios2 include <asm-generic/cmpxchg.h> into their arch
cmpxchg.h so they get a definition of these functions but don't define
HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL. Peter Zijlstra said it the local versions are ~ 20
cycles faster on x86 than the "global" version. But I've found one user
of cmpxchg_local, mm/vmstat.c and one user of cmpxchg64_local,
drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c. Sure, fixing the issue was trivial for me
on MIPS but is having cmpxchg{,64}_local actually worth it?
Cheers,
Ralf
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2015-06-10 15:57 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2015-06-10 16:00 ` HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL arch support Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-10 16:36 ` Generic kernel features that need architecture(mips) support Xose Vazquez Perez
2015-06-11 6:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-11 13:20 ` Jonathan Corbet
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