x86-64, rwsem: Avoid store forwarding hazard in __downgrade_write

The Intel Architecture Optimization Reference Manual states that a short
load that follows a long store to the same object will suffer a store
forwading penalty, particularly if the two accesses use different addresses.
Trivially, a long load that follows a short store will also suffer a penalty.

__downgrade_write() in rwsem incurs both penalties:  the increment operation
will not be able to reuse a recently-loaded rwsem value, and its result will
not be reused by any recently-following rwsem operation.

A comment in the code states that this is because 64-bit immediates are
special and expensive; but while they are slightly special (only a single
instruction allows them), they aren't expensive: a test shows that two loops,
one loading a 32-bit immediate and one loading a 64-bit immediate, both take
1.5 cycles per iteration.

Fix this by changing __downgrade_write to use the same add instruction on
i386 and on x86_64, so that it uses the same operand size as all the other
rwsem functions.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1266049992-17419-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/rwsem.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/rwsem.h
index 10204a25bf9..606ede12697 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/rwsem.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/rwsem.h
@@ -232,34 +232,19 @@ static inline void __up_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
  */
 static inline void __downgrade_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-# if RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS != -0x100000000
-#  error "This code assumes RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS == -2^32"
-# endif
-
-        /* 64-bit immediates are special and expensive, and not needed here */
-        asm volatile("# beginning __downgrade_write\n\t"
-                     LOCK_PREFIX "incl 4(%1)\n\t"
-                     /* transitions 0xZZZZZZZZ00000001 -> 0xYYYYYYYY00000001 */
-                     "  jns       1f\n\t"
-                     "  call call_rwsem_downgrade_wake\n"
-                     "1:\n\t"
-                     "# ending __downgrade_write\n"
-                     : "+m" (sem->count)
-                     : "a" (sem)
-                     : "memory", "cc");
-#else
         asm volatile("# beginning __downgrade_write\n\t"
                      LOCK_PREFIX _ASM_ADD "%2,(%1)\n\t"
-                     /* transitions 0xZZZZ0001 -> 0xYYYY0001 */
+                     /*
+                      * transitions 0xZZZZ0001 -> 0xYYYY0001 (i386)
+                      *     0xZZZZZZZZ00000001 -> 0xYYYYYYYY00000001 (x86_64)
+                      */
                      "  jns       1f\n\t"
                      "  call call_rwsem_downgrade_wake\n"
                      "1:\n\t"
                      "# ending __downgrade_write\n"
                      : "+m" (sem->count)
-                     : "a" (sem), "i" (-RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
+                     : "a" (sem), "er" (-RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
                      : "memory", "cc");
-#endif
 }
 
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