Commit 4e14a4d1 authored by Anton Blanchard's avatar Anton Blanchard Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Use lwarx hint in spinlocks

Recent versions of the PowerPC architecture added a hint bit to the larx
instructions to differentiate between an atomic operation and a lock operation:

> 0 Other programs might attempt to modify the word in storage addressed by EA
> even if the subsequent Store Conditional succeeds.
>
> 1 Other programs will not attempt to modify the word in storage addressed by
> EA until the program that has acquired the lock performs a subsequent store
> releasing the lock.

To avoid a binutils dependency this patch create macros for the extended lwarx
format and uses it in the spinlock code. To test this change I used a simple
test case that acquires and releases a global pthread mutex:

	pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
	pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);

On a 32 core POWER6, running 32 test threads we spend almost all our time in
the futex spinlock code:

    94.37%     perf  [kernel]                     [k] ._raw_spin_lock
               |
               |--99.95%-- ._raw_spin_lock
               |          |
               |          |--63.29%-- .futex_wake
               |          |
               |          |--36.64%-- .futex_wait_setup

Which is a good test for this patch. The results (in lock/unlock operations per
second) are:

before: 1538203 ops/sec
after:  2189219 ops/sec

An improvement of 42%

A 32 core POWER7 improves even more:

before: 1279529 ops/sec
after:  2282076 ops/sec

An improvement of 78%
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
parent 17081102
......@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#define PPC_INST_ISEL_MASK 0xfc00003e
#define PPC_INST_LSWI 0x7c0004aa
#define PPC_INST_LSWX 0x7c00042a
#define PPC_INST_LWARX 0x7c000029
#define PPC_INST_LWSYNC 0x7c2004ac
#define PPC_INST_LXVD2X 0x7c000698
#define PPC_INST_MCRXR 0x7c000400
......@@ -55,15 +56,28 @@
#define __PPC_RA(a) (((a) & 0x1f) << 16)
#define __PPC_RB(b) (((b) & 0x1f) << 11)
#define __PPC_RS(s) (((s) & 0x1f) << 21)
#define __PPC_RT(s) __PPC_RS(s)
#define __PPC_XS(s) ((((s) & 0x1f) << 21) | (((s) & 0x20) >> 5))
#define __PPC_T_TLB(t) (((t) & 0x3) << 21)
#define __PPC_WC(w) (((w) & 0x3) << 21)
/*
* Only use the larx hint bit on 64bit CPUs. Once we verify it doesn't have
* any side effects on all 32bit processors, we can do this all the time.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
#define __PPC_EH(eh) (((eh) & 0x1) << 0)
#else
#define __PPC_EH(eh) 0
#endif
/* Deal with instructions that older assemblers aren't aware of */
#define PPC_DCBAL(a, b) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_DCBAL | \
__PPC_RA(a) | __PPC_RB(b))
#define PPC_DCBZL(a, b) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_DCBZL | \
__PPC_RA(a) | __PPC_RB(b))
#define PPC_LWARX(t, a, b, eh) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_LWARX | \
__PPC_RT(t) | __PPC_RA(a) | \
__PPC_RB(b) | __PPC_EH(eh))
#define PPC_MSGSND(b) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_MSGSND | \
__PPC_RB(b))
#define PPC_RFCI stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_RFCI)
......
......@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#endif
#include <asm/asm-compat.h>
#include <asm/synch.h>
#include <asm/ppc-opcode.h>
#define arch_spin_is_locked(x) ((x)->slock != 0)
......@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __arch_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
token = LOCK_TOKEN;
__asm__ __volatile__(
"1: lwarx %0,0,%2\n\
"1: " PPC_LWARX(%0,0,%2,1) "\n\
cmpwi 0,%0,0\n\
bne- 2f\n\
stwcx. %1,0,%2\n\
......@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ static inline long __arch_read_trylock(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
long tmp;
__asm__ __volatile__(
"1: lwarx %0,0,%1\n"
"1: " PPC_LWARX(%0,0,%1,1) "\n"
__DO_SIGN_EXTEND
" addic. %0,%0,1\n\
ble- 2f\n"
......@@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ static inline long __arch_write_trylock(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
token = WRLOCK_TOKEN;
__asm__ __volatile__(
"1: lwarx %0,0,%2\n\
"1: " PPC_LWARX(%0,0,%2,1) "\n\
cmpwi 0,%0,0\n\
bne- 2f\n"
PPC405_ERR77(0,%1)
......
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