Clean up and simplify set_64bit(). This code is quite old (1.3.11)
and contains a fair bit of auxilliary machinery that current versions
of gcc handle just fine automatically. Worse, the auxilliary
machinery can actually cause an unnecessary spill to memory.
Furthermore, the loading of the old value inside the loop in the
32-bit case is unnecessary: if the value doesn't match, the CMPXCHG8B
instruction will already have loaded the "new previous" value for us.
Clean up the comment, too, and remove page references to obsolete
versions of the Intel SDM.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@vger.kernel.org>
xchg() and cmpxchg() modify their memory operands, not merely read
them. For some versions of gcc the "memory" clobber has apparently
dealt with the situation, but not for all.
Originally-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C4F7277.8050306@zytor.com>
Use the functionality just introduced in the previous patch: mark the
lock prefixes in cmpxchg64 alternatives for UP removal.
Changes in v2:
- Naming change
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267005265-27958-3-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h: Fix build bug - gcc-4.0.2 doesn't understand __builtin_object_size
x86/alternatives: No need for alternatives-asm.h to re-invent stuff already in asm.h
x86/alternatives: Check replacementlen <= instrlen at build time
x86, 64-bit: Set data segments to null after switching to 64-bit mode
x86: Clean up the loadsegment() macro
x86: Optimize loadsegment()
x86: Add missing might_fault() checks to copy_{to,from}_user()
x86-64: __copy_from_user_inatomic() adjustments
x86: Remove unused thread_return label from switch_to()
x86, 64-bit: Fix bstep_iret jump
x86: Don't use the strict copy checks when branch profiling is in use
x86, 64-bit: Move K8 B step iret fixup to fault entry asm
x86: Generate cmpxchg build failures
x86: Add a Kconfig option to turn the copy_from_user warnings into errors
x86: Turn the copy_from_user check into an (optional) compile time warning
x86: Use __builtin_memset and __builtin_memcpy for memset/memcpy
x86: Use __builtin_object_size() to validate the buffer size for copy_from_user()
Rework the x86 cmpxchg() implementation to generate build failures
when used on improper types.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1254771187.21044.22.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cmpxchg64() today generates, to quote Linus, "barf bag" code.
cmpxchg64() is about to get used in the scheduler to fix a bug there,
but it's a prerequisite that cmpxchg64() first be made non-sucking.
This patch turns cmpxchg64() into an efficient implementation that
uses the alternative() mechanism to just use the raw instruction on
all modern systems.
Note: the fallback is NOT smp safe, just like the current fallback
is not SMP safe. (Interested parties with i486 based SMP systems
are welcome to submit fix patches for that.)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[ fixed asm constraint bug ]
Fixed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090930170754.0886ff2e@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
