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powerpc: Optimise smp_wmb on 64-bit processors

For 64-bit processors, lwsync is the recommended method of store/store
ordering on caching enabled memory.  For those subarchs which have
lwsync, use it rather than eieio for smp_wmb.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Nick Piggin 17 years ago
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1 changed files with 10 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 10 3
      include/asm-powerpc/system.h

+ 10 - 3
include/asm-powerpc/system.h

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
  *
  * For wmb(), we use sync since wmb is used in drivers to order
  * stores to system memory with respect to writes to the device.
- * However, smp_wmb() can be a lighter-weight eieio barrier on
- * SMP since it is only used to order updates to system memory.
+ * However, smp_wmb() can be a lighter-weight lwsync or eieio barrier
+ * on SMP since it is only used to order updates to system memory.
  */
 #define mb()   __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory")
 #define rmb()  __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory")
@@ -43,9 +43,16 @@
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 #define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH 6 /* entries in ARCH_DLINFO */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+
+#ifdef __SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC
+#    define SMPWMB      lwsync
+#else
+#    define SMPWMB      eieio
+#endif
+
 #define smp_mb()	mb()
 #define smp_rmb()	rmb()
-#define smp_wmb()	eieio()
+#define smp_wmb()	__asm__ __volatile__ (__stringify(SMPWMB) : : :"memory")
 #define smp_read_barrier_depends()	read_barrier_depends()
 #else
 #define smp_mb()	barrier()