mfence appears to be way slower than a locked instruction - let's use lock+add unconditionally, as we always did on old 32-bit. Just poking at SP would be the most natural, but if we then read the value from SP, we get a false dependency which will slow us down. This was noted in this article: http://shipilev.net/blog/2014/on-the-fence-with-dependencies/ And is easy to reproduce by sticking a barrier in a small non-inline function. So let's use a negative offset - which avoids this problem since we build with the red zone disabled. Update rmb/wmb on 32 bit to use the negative offset, too, for consistency. Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h index bfb28ca..9a2d257 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h @@ -11,16 +11,15 @@ */ #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 -#define mb() asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)", "mfence", \ - X86_FEATURE_XMM2) ::: "memory", "cc") -#define rmb() asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)", "lfence", \ +#define mb() asm volatile("lock; addl $0,-4(%%esp)" ::: "memory", "cc") +#define rmb() asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("lock; addl $0,-4(%%esp)", "lfence", \ X86_FEATURE_XMM2) ::: "memory", "cc") -#define wmb() asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)", "sfence", \ +#define wmb() asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("lock; addl $0,-4(%%esp)", "sfence", \ X86_FEATURE_XMM2) ::: "memory", "cc") #else -#define mb() asm volatile("mfence":::"memory") -#define rmb() asm volatile("lfence":::"memory") -#define wmb() asm volatile("sfence" ::: "memory") +#define mb() asm volatile("lock; addl $0,-4(%%rsp)" ::: "memory", "cc") +#define rmb() asm volatile("lfence" ::: "memory") +#define wmb() asm volatile("sfence" ::: "memory") #endif #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE -- MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
