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Commit 053f58ba authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: atomics: lse: define RETURN ops in terms of FETCH ops



The FEAT_LSE atomic instructions include LD* instructions which return
the original value of a memory location can be used to directly
implement FETCH opertations. Each RETURN op is implemented as a copy of
the corresponding FETCH op with a trailing instruction to generate the
new value of the memory location. We only directly implement
*_fetch_add*(), for which we have a trailing `add` instruction.

As the compiler has no visibility of the `add`, this leads to less than
optimal code generation when consuming the result.

For example, the compiler cannot constant-fold the addition into later
operations, and currently GCC 11.1.0 will compile:

       return __lse_atomic_sub_return(1, v) == 0;

As:

	mov     w1, #0xffffffff
	ldaddal w1, w2, [x0]
	add     w1, w1, w2
	cmp     w1, #0x0
	cset    w0, eq  // eq = none
	ret

This patch improves this by replacing the `add` with C addition after
the inline assembly block, e.g.

	ret += i;

This allows the compiler to manipulate `i`. This permits the compiler to
merge the `add` and `cmp` for the above, e.g.

	mov     w1, #0xffffffff
	ldaddal w1, w1, [x0]
	cmp     w1, #0x1
	cset    w0, eq  // eq = none
	ret

With this change the assembly for each RETURN op is identical to the
corresponding FETCH op (including barriers and clobbers) so I've removed
the inline assembly and rewritten each RETURN op in terms of the
corresponding FETCH op, e.g.

| static inline void __lse_atomic_add_return(int i, atomic_t *v)
| {
|       return __lse_atomic_fetch_add(i, v) + i
| }

The new construction does not adversely affect the common case, and
before and after this patch GCC 11.1.0 can compile:

	__lse_atomic_add_return(i, v)

As:

	ldaddal w0, w2, [x1]
	add     w0, w0, w2

... while having the freedom to do better elsewhere.

This is intended as an optimization and cleanup.
There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210151410.2782645-6-mark.rutland@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 8a578a75
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