[PATCH] ARCv2: spinlock/rwlock/atomics: reduce 1 instruction in exponential backoff

From: Vineet Gupta
Date: Fri Aug 07 2015 - 04:23:14 EST


The increment of delay counter was 2 instructions:
Arithmatic Shfit Left (ASL) + set to 1 on overflow

This can be done in 1 using ROtate Left (ROL)

Suggested-by: Nigel Topham <ntopham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arc/include/asm/atomic.h | 3 +--
arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h | 3 +--
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/atomic.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/atomic.h
index 629dfd0a0c6b..87d18ae53115 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/atomic.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/atomic.h
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@
" mov %[tmp], %[delay] \n" /* tmp = delay */ \
"2: brne.d %[tmp], 0, 2b \n" /* while (tmp != 0) */ \
" sub %[tmp], %[tmp], 1 \n" /* tmp-- */ \
- " asl.f %[delay], %[delay], 1 \n" /* delay *= 2 */ \
- " mov.z %[delay], 1 \n" /* handle overflow */ \
+ " rol %[delay], %[delay] \n" /* delay *= 2 */ \
" b 1b \n" /* start over */ \
"4: ; --- success --- \n" \

diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h
index 7071fc0da56a..db8c59d1eaeb 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -260,8 +260,7 @@ static inline void arch_write_unlock(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
" mov %[tmp], %[delay] \n" /* tmp = delay */ \
"2: brne.d %[tmp], 0, 2b \n" /* while (tmp != 0) */ \
" sub %[tmp], %[tmp], 1 \n" /* tmp-- */ \
- " asl.f %[delay], %[delay], 1 \n" /* delay *= 2 */ \
- " mov.z %[delay], 1 \n" /* handle overflow */ \
+ " rol %[delay], %[delay] \n" /* delay *= 2 */ \
" b 1b \n" /* start over */ \
" \n" \
"4: ; --- done --- \n" \
--
1.9.1

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