This patch implements the lwarx/ldarx hint bit for bit locks.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This adds the opcode definitions to ppc-opcode.h for the two instructions
tlbivax and tlbsrx. as defined by Book3E 2.06
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This adds the PowerPC 2.06 tlbie mnemonics and keeps backwards
compatibilty for CPUs before 2.06.
Only useful for bare metal systems.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cleans up the VSX load/store instructions by moving them into
ppc-opcode.h.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Make macros more braces happy.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This reverts commit e996557740. Our HW
guys were able to fix this so it never sees the light of day.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
During the ISA 2.06 development the opcode for tlbilx changed and some
early implementations used to old opcode. Add support for a MMU_FTR
fixup to deal with this.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
The tlbilx opcode was not matching the Power ISA 2.06 arch spec.
The old opcode was an early suggested opcode that changed during the
2.06 architecture process.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC
opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions
at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just
compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about.
We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode
as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already
have.
Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions
since older assemblers don't know about them.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
