[PATCH v4 5/7] um: "borrow" cmpxchg from x86 tree in UML

anton.ivanov at cambridgegreys.com anton.ivanov at cambridgegreys.com
Fri Dec 11 12:45:57 EST 2020


From: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov at cambridgegreys.com>

UML was falling back to asm-generic cmpxchg which emulates atomic
behaviour by turning irqs on/off. On UML this means turning
on/off signals for each cmpxchg which is expensive.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov at cambridgegreys.com>
---
 arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg-x86.h | 1 +
 arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg.h     | 7 +++++++
 arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h  | 1 +
 arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h  | 1 +
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
 create mode 120000 arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg-x86.h
 create mode 100644 arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
 create mode 120000 arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
 create mode 120000 arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h

diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg-x86.h b/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg-x86.h
new file mode 120000
index 000000000000..a5c607edde88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg-x86.h
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..03e7a669eeef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASM_UM_CMPXCHG_H
+#define _ASM_UM_CMPXCHG_H
+
+#include <asm/cmpxchg-x86.h>
+
+#endif
diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h b/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
new file mode 120000
index 000000000000..1f360d0a9fa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h b/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h
new file mode 120000
index 000000000000..bc09ae22b0cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h
\ No newline at end of file
-- 
2.20.1




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