History log of /linux-master/arch/loongarch/include/asm/barrier.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# e031a5f3 29-Jun-2023 Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>

LoongArch: Support dbar with different hints

Traditionally, LoongArch uses "dbar 0" (full completion barrier) for
everything. But the full completion barrier is a performance killer, so
Loongson-3A6000 and newer processors have made finer granularity hints
available:

Bit4: ordering or completion (0: completion, 1: ordering)
Bit3: barrier for previous read (0: true, 1: false)
Bit2: barrier for previous write (0: true, 1: false)
Bit1: barrier for succeeding read (0: true, 1: false)
Bit0: barrier for succeeding write (0: true, 1: false)

Hint 0x700: barrier for "read after read" from the same address, which
is needed by LL-SC loops on old models (dbar 0x700 behaves the same as
nop if such reordering is disabled on new models).

This patch makes use of the various new hints for different kinds of
memory barriers. It brings performance improvements on Loongson-3A6000
series, while not affecting the existing models because all variants are
treated as 'dbar 0' there.

Why override queued_spin_unlock()?
After commit 01e3b958efe85a26d9b ("drivers: Remove explicit invocations
of mmiowb()") we need a completion barrier in queued_spin_unlock(), but
the generic implementation use smp_store_release() which only provide an
ordering barrier.

Signed-off-by: Jun Yi <yijun@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>


# d8e7f201 26-Jul-2022 WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>

LoongArch: Use ABI names of registers where appropriate

Some of the assembly in the LoongArch port seem to come from a
prehistoric time, when the assembler didn't even have support for the
ABI names we all come to know and love, thus used raw register numbers
which hampered readability.

The usages are found with a regex match inside arch/loongarch, then
manually adjusted for those non-definitions.

Signed-off-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>


# 46859ac8 31-May-2022 Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>

LoongArch: Add multi-processor (SMP) support

LoongArch-based procesors have 4, 8 or 16 cores per package. This patch
adds multi-processor (SMP) support for LoongArch.

Reviewed-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>


# 5b0b14e5 31-May-2022 Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>

LoongArch: Add atomic/locking headers

Add common headers (atomic, bitops, barrier and locking) for basic
LoongArch support.

Reviewed-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>