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Commit 04ec0061 authored by Uros Bizjak's avatar Uros Bizjak Committed by akpm
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mm/page_alloc: use try_cmpxchg in set_pfnblock_flags_mask

Use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg in set_pfnblock_flags_mask.  x86
CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag, so this change saves a
compare after cmpxchg (and related move instruction in front of cmpxchg). 
The main loop improves from:

    1c5d:	48 89 c2             	mov    %rax,%rdx
    1c60:	48 89 c1             	mov    %rax,%rcx
    1c63:	48 21 fa             	and    %rdi,%rdx
    1c66:	4c 09 c2             	or     %r8,%rdx
    1c69:	f0 48 0f b1 16       	lock cmpxchg %rdx,(%rsi)
    1c6e:	48 39 c1             	cmp    %rax,%rcx
    1c71:	75 ea                	jne    1c5d <...>

to:

    1c60:	48 89 ca             	mov    %rcx,%rdx
    1c63:	48 21 c2             	and    %rax,%rdx
    1c66:	4c 09 c2             	or     %r8,%rdx
    1c69:	f0 48 0f b1 16       	lock cmpxchg %rdx,(%rsi)
    1c6e:	75 f0                	jne    1c60 <...>

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220708140736.8737-1-ubizjak@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarUros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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