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 7837314d14 ("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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