MIPS: Cleanup R10000_LLSC_WAR logic in atomic.h
This patch reduces down the conditionals in MIPS atomic code that deal with a silicon bug in early R10000 cpus that required a workaround of a branch-likely instruction following a store-conditional in order to to guarantee the whole ll/sc sequence is atomic. As the only real difference is a branch-likely instruction (beqzl) over a standard branch (beqz), the conditional is reduced down to a single preprocessor check at the top to pick the required instruction. This requires writing the uses in assembler, thus we discard the non-R10000 case that uses a mixture of a C do...while loop with embedded assembler that was added back in commit 7837314d ("MIPS: Get rid of branches to .subsections."). A note found in the git log for commit 5999eca25c1f ("[MIPS] Improve branch prediction in ll/sc atomic operations.") is also addressed. The macro definition for the branch instruction and the code comment derives from a patch sent in earlier by Paul Burton for various cmpxchg cleanups. [paul.burton@mips.com: - Minor whitespace fix for checkpatch.] Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17736/ Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@mips.com> Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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