Commit 837e72f7 authored by Nicholas Piggin's avatar Nicholas Piggin Committed by Michael Ellerman

powerpc/64: Drop reservation-clearing ldarx in context switch

There is no need to explicitly break the reservation in _switch,
because we are guaranteed that the context switch path will include a
larx/stcx.

Comment the guarantee and remove the reservation clear from _switch.

This is worth 1-2% in context switch performance.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent e4c0fc5f
......@@ -521,15 +521,10 @@ _GLOBAL(_switch)
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
/*
* If we optimise away the clear of the reservation in system
* calls because we know the CPU tracks the address of the
* reservation, then we need to clear it here to cover the
* case that the kernel context switch path has no larx
* instructions.
* The kernel context switch path must contain a spin_lock,
* which contains larx/stcx, which will clear any reservation
* of the task being switched.
*/
BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
ldarx r6,0,r1
END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_STCX_CHECKS_ADDRESS)
BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
/*
......
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