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[34/37] MIPS: barrier: Make __smp_mb__before_atomic() a no-op for Loongson3

Message ID 20190930230806.2940505-35-paul.burton@mips.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series MIPS: barriers & atomics cleanups | expand

Commit Message

Paul Burton Sept. 30, 2019, 11:08 p.m. UTC 
Loongson3 systems with CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON3_WORKAROUNDS enabled already
emit a full completion barrier as part of the inline assembly containing
LL/SC loops for atomic operations. As such the barrier emitted by
__smp_mb__before_atomic() is redundant, and we can remove it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
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 arch/mips/include/asm/barrier.h | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/barrier.h
index 1a99a6c5b5dd..f3b5aa0938c1 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -118,7 +118,17 @@  static inline void wmb(void)
 #define nudge_writes() mb()
 #endif
 
-#define __smp_mb__before_atomic()	__smp_mb__before_llsc()
+/*
+ * In the Loongson3 LL/SC workaround case, all of our LL/SC loops already have
+ * a completion barrier immediately preceding the LL instruction. Therefore we
+ * can skip emitting a barrier from __smp_mb__before_atomic().
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON3_WORKAROUNDS
+# define __smp_mb__before_atomic()
+#else
+# define __smp_mb__before_atomic()	__smp_mb__before_llsc()
+#endif
+
 #define __smp_mb__after_atomic()	smp_llsc_mb()
 
 static inline void sync_ginv(void)