[RFC PATCH] ARM: cmpxchg: define __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG for armv6 and later
Yong Zhang
yong.zhang0 at gmail.com
Wed May 30 03:51:26 EDT 2012
From: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang at windriver.com>
Both pi_stress and sigwaittest in rt-test show performance gain with
__HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG. Testing result on coretile_express_a9x4:
pi_stress -p 99 --duration=300 (on linux-3.4-rc5; bigger is better)
vanilla: Total inversion performed: 5493381
patched: Total inversion performed: 5621746
sigwaittest -p 99 -l 100000 (on linux-3.4-rc5-rt6; less is better)
3.4-rc5-rt6: Min 24, Cur 27, Avg 30, Max 98
patched: Min 19, Cur 21, Avg 23, Max 96
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0 at gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
---
arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
index 7eb18c1..a91b44e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ static inline unsigned long __xchg(unsigned long x, volatile void *ptr, int size
#else /* min ARCH >= ARMv6 */
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG 1
+
extern void __bad_cmpxchg(volatile void *ptr, int size);
/*
--
1.7.5.4
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