On 4/6/21 7:52 PM, Stafford Horne wrote:
For OpenRISC I did ack the patch to convert to CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32=y. But I think you are right, the generic code in xchg_tail and the xchg16 emulation code in produced by OpenRISC using xchg32 would produce very similar code. I have not compared instructions, but it does seem like duplicate functionality. Why doesn't RISC-V add the xchg16 emulation code similar to OpenRISC? For OpenRISC we added xchg16 and xchg8 emulation code to enable qspinlocks. So one thought is with CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32=y, can we remove our xchg16/xchg8 emulation code?
For the record, the latest qspinlock code doesn't use xchg8 anymore. It still need xchg16, though.
Cheers, Longman
