From 0bc8e682ed2f4a0eed74eca17d079222f9063a30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yong Zhang Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:56:18 -0600 Subject: ARM: cmpxchg: define __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG for armv6 and later 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 Cc: Russell King Cc: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h index df2fbba7efc8..30b1a4010b89 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); /* -- cgit v1.2.3