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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h index b85ade511a53..8ee45167e817 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h @@ -263,8 +263,9 @@ do { \ }) /* - * Beware: xchg on x86 has an implied lock prefix. There will be the cost of - * full lock semantics even though they are not needed. + * xchg is implemented using cmpxchg without a lock prefix. xchg is + * expensive due to the implied lock prefix. The processor cannot prefetch + * cachelines if xchg is used. */ #define percpu_xchg_op(var, nval) \ ({ \ @@ -272,25 +273,33 @@ do { \ typeof(var) pxo_new__ = (nval); \ switch (sizeof(var)) { \ case 1: \ - asm("xchgb %2, "__percpu_arg(1) \ + asm("\n1:mov "__percpu_arg(1)",%%al" \ + "\n\tcmpxchgb %2, "__percpu_arg(1) \ + "\n\tjnz 1b" \ : "=a" (pxo_ret__), "+m" (var) \ : "q" (pxo_new__) \ : "memory"); \ break; \ case 2: \ - asm("xchgw %2, "__percpu_arg(1) \ + asm("\n1:mov "__percpu_arg(1)",%%ax" \ + "\n\tcmpxchgw %2, "__percpu_arg(1) \ + "\n\tjnz 1b" \ : "=a" (pxo_ret__), "+m" (var) \ : "r" (pxo_new__) \ : "memory"); \ break; \ case 4: \ - asm("xchgl %2, "__percpu_arg(1) \ + asm("\n1:mov "__percpu_arg(1)",%%eax" \ + "\n\tcmpxchgl %2, "__percpu_arg(1) \ + "\n\tjnz 1b" \ : "=a" (pxo_ret__), "+m" (var) \ : "r" (pxo_new__) \ : "memory"); \ break; \ case 8: \ - asm("xchgq %2, "__percpu_arg(1) \ + asm("\n1:mov "__percpu_arg(1)",%%rax" \ + "\n\tcmpxchgq %2, "__percpu_arg(1) \ + "\n\tjnz 1b" \ : "=a" (pxo_ret__), "+m" (var) \ : "r" (pxo_new__) \ : "memory"); \ |