[tip:perfcounters/urgent] x86: atomic64: Improve cmpxchg8b()

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Commit-ID:  69237f94e65d3d7f539f1adb98ef68685c595004
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/69237f94e65d3d7f539f1adb98ef68685c595004
Author:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:26:41 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:26:41 +0200

x86: atomic64: Improve cmpxchg8b()

Rewrite cmpxchg8b() to not use %edi register but a generic "+m"
constraint, to increase compiler freedom in code generation and
possibly better code.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
 arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c |   19 +++++++------------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c b/arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c
index afa5d44..5fc1e2c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c
@@ -6,19 +6,14 @@
 
 static inline u64 cmpxchg8b(u64 *ptr, u64 old, u64 new)
 {
-	asm volatile(
-
-		LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchg8b (%[ptr])\n"
-
-		     :		"=A" (old)
-
-		     : [ptr]	"D" (ptr),
-				"A" (old),
-				"b" (ll_low(new)),
-				"c" (ll_high(new))
-
-		     : "memory");
+	u32 low = new;
+	u32 high = new >> 32;
 
+	asm volatile(
+		LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchg8b %1\n"
+		     : "+A" (old), "+m" (*ptr)
+		     :  "b" (low),  "c" (high)
+		     );
 	return old;
 }
 
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