[PATCH 18/21] [PATCH] unify prefetch operations

From: Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Date: Mon Dec 17 2007 - 20:45:51 EST


This patch moves the prefetch[w]? functions to processor.h

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-x86/processor.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/asm-x86/processor_32.h | 25 -------------------------
include/asm-x86/processor_64.h | 8 --------
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-x86/include/asm-x86/processor.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-x86.orig/include/asm-x86/processor.h
+++ linux-2.6-x86/include/asm-x86/processor.h
@@ -592,6 +592,36 @@ extern char ignore_fpu_irq;
#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
#define ARCH_HAS_SPINLOCK_PREFETCH

+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+#define BASE_PREFETCH ASM_NOP4
+#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
+#else
+#define BASE_PREFETCH "prefetcht0 (%1)"
+#endif
+
+/* Prefetch instructions for Pentium III and AMD Athlon */
+/* It's not worth to care about 3dnow! prefetches for the K6
+ because they are microcoded there and very slow.
+ However we don't do prefetches for pre XP Athlons currently
+ That should be fixed. */
+static inline void prefetch(const void *x)
+{
+ alternative_input(BASE_PREFETCH,
+ "prefetchnta (%1)",
+ X86_FEATURE_XMM,
+ "r" (x));
+}
+
+/* 3dnow! prefetch to get an exclusive cache line. Useful for
+ spinlocks to avoid one state transition in the cache coherency protocol. */
+static inline void prefetchw(const void *x)
+{
+ alternative_input(BASE_PREFETCH,
+ "prefetchw (%1)",
+ X86_FEATURE_3DNOW,
+ "r" (x));
+}
+
#define spin_lock_prefetch(x) prefetchw(x)
/* This decides where the kernel will search for a free chunk of vm
* space during mmap's.
Index: linux-2.6-x86/include/asm-x86/processor_32.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-x86.orig/include/asm-x86/processor_32.h
+++ linux-2.6-x86/include/asm-x86/processor_32.h
@@ -228,29 +228,4 @@ extern unsigned long thread_saved_pc(str

#define ASM_NOP_MAX 8

-/* Prefetch instructions for Pentium III and AMD Athlon */
-/* It's not worth to care about 3dnow! prefetches for the K6
- because they are microcoded there and very slow.
- However we don't do prefetches for pre XP Athlons currently
- That should be fixed. */
-static inline void prefetch(const void *x)
-{
- alternative_input(ASM_NOP4,
- "prefetchnta (%1)",
- X86_FEATURE_XMM,
- "r" (x));
-}
-
-#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
-
-/* 3dnow! prefetch to get an exclusive cache line. Useful for
- spinlocks to avoid one state transition in the cache coherency protocol. */
-static inline void prefetchw(const void *x)
-{
- alternative_input(ASM_NOP4,
- "prefetchw (%1)",
- X86_FEATURE_3DNOW,
- "r" (x));
-}
-
#endif /* __ASM_I386_PROCESSOR_H */
Index: linux-2.6-x86/include/asm-x86/processor_64.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-x86.orig/include/asm-x86/processor_64.h
+++ linux-2.6-x86/include/asm-x86/processor_64.h
@@ -124,12 +124,4 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct orig_ist, orig_is

#define ASM_NOP_MAX 8

-static inline void prefetchw(void *x)
-{
- alternative_input("prefetcht0 (%1)",
- "prefetchw (%1)",
- X86_FEATURE_3DNOW,
- "r" (x));
-}
-
#endif /* __ASM_X86_64_PROCESSOR_H */
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