[GIT PULL] prefetch support for 3.13

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Oct 9 13:13:13 EDT 2013


Hi Russell,

Please pull the following patches for 3.13. They add support for the pldw
instruction (prefetch with intent to modify) in ARMv7 SMP cores, which is
then used to gain a measurable performance boost for particular atomic
sequences.

Cheers,

Will

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The following changes since commit 15c03dd4859ab16f9212238f29dd315654aa94f6:

  Linux 3.12-rc3 (2013-09-29 15:02:38 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux.git for-rmk/prefetch

for you to fetch changes up to d779c07dd72098a7416d907494f958213b7726f3:

  ARM: bitops: prefetch the destination word for write prior to strex (2013-09-30 16:42:56 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Will Deacon (6):
      ARM: prefetch: remove redundant "cc" clobber
      ARM: smp_on_up: move inline asm ALT_SMP patching macro out of spinlock.h
      ARM: prefetch: add support for prefetchw using pldw on SMP ARMv7+ CPUs
      ARM: locks: prefetch the destination word for write prior to strex
      ARM: atomics: prefetch the destination word for write prior to strex
      ARM: bitops: prefetch the destination word for write prior to strex

 arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h         |  7 +++++++
 arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h      | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h       | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
 arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock_types.h |  2 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/unified.h        |  4 ++++
 arch/arm/lib/bitops.h                 |  5 +++++
 6 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)



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