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Guo Ren 186f69b64c csky: atomic: Optimize cmpxchg with acquire & release
Optimize cmpxchg with ASM acquire/release fence ASM instructions
instead of previous generic based. Prevent a fence when cmxchg's
first load != old.

Comments by Rutland:

8e86f0b409 ("arm64: atomics: fix use of acquire + release for
full barrier semantics")

Comments by Boqun:

FWIW, you probably need to make sure that a barrier instruction inside
an lr/sc loop is a good thing. IIUC, the execution time of a barrier
instruction is determined by the status of store buffers and invalidate
queues (and probably other stuffs), so it may increase the execution
time of the lr/sc loop, and make it unlikely to succeed. But this really
depends on how the arch executes these instructions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/CAJF2gTSAxpAi=LbAdu7jntZRUa=-dJwL0VfmDfBV5MHB=rcZ-w@mail.gmail.com/T/#m27a0f1342995deae49ce1d0e1f2683f8a181d6c3
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
2022-04-25 13:51:42 +08:00
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