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arm64: Remove redundant mov from LL/SC cmpxchg
authorRobin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Fri, 12 May 2017 12:48:41 +0000 (13:48 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Mon, 15 May 2017 17:30:10 +0000 (18:30 +0100)
The cmpxchg implementation introduced by commit c342f78217e8 ("arm64:
cmpxchg: patch in lse instructions when supported by the CPU") performs
an apparently redundant register move of [old] to [oldval] in the
success case - it always uses the same register width as [oldval] was
originally loaded with, and is only executed when [old] and [oldval] are
known to be equal anyway.

The only effect it seemingly does have is to take up a surprising amount
of space in the kernel text, as removing it reveals:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
12426658 1348614 4499749 18275021 116dacd vmlinux.o.new
12429238 1348614 4499749 18277601 116e4e1 vmlinux.o.old

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_ll_sc.h

index f819fdcff1accf694cc0ec7428096fe41aef7f89..f5a2d09afb3841bd5ac7d40764ef48b2e108de0d 100644 (file)
@@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ __LL_SC_PREFIX(__cmpxchg_case_##name(volatile void *ptr,            \
        "       st" #rel "xr" #sz "\t%w[tmp], %" #w "[new], %[v]\n"     \
        "       cbnz    %w[tmp], 1b\n"                                  \
        "       " #mb "\n"                                              \
-       "       mov     %" #w "[oldval], %" #w "[old]\n"                \
        "2:"                                                            \
        : [tmp] "=&r" (tmp), [oldval] "=&r" (oldval),                   \
          [v] "+Q" (*(unsigned long *)ptr)                              \