From: Robin Murphy robin.murphy@arm.com
commit 8df728e1ae614f592961e51f65d3e3212ede5a75 upstream.
The cmpxchg implementation introduced by commit c342f78217e8 ("arm64: cmpxchg: patch in lse instructions when supported by the CPU") performs an apparently redundant register move of [old] to [oldval] in the success case - it always uses the same register width as [oldval] was originally loaded with, and is only executed when [old] and [oldval] are known to be equal anyway.
The only effect it seemingly does have is to take up a surprising amount of space in the kernel text, as removing it reveals:
text data bss dec hex filename 12426658 1348614 4499749 18275021 116dacd vmlinux.o.new 12429238 1348614 4499749 18277601 116e4e1 vmlinux.o.old
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy robin.murphy@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_ll_sc.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_ll_sc.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_ll_sc.h @@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ __LL_SC_PREFIX(__cmpxchg_case_##name(vol " st" #rel "xr" #sz "\t%w[tmp], %" #w "[new], %[v]\n" \ " cbnz %w[tmp], 1b\n" \ " " #mb "\n" \ - " mov %" #w "[oldval], %" #w "[old]\n" \ "2:" \ : [tmp] "=&r" (tmp), [oldval] "=&r" (oldval), \ [v] "+Q" (*(unsigned long *)ptr) \