linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 3/3] xen: Use sync_try_cmpxchg instead of sync

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Date:   Sun,  1 Oct 2023 12:39:11 +0200
From:   Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Cc:     Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] xen: Use sync_try_cmpxchg instead of sync_cmpxchg

Use sync_try_cmpxchg instead of sync_cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old
in clear_masked_cond(), clear_linked() and
gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref_v1(). x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns
success in ZF flag, so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg
(and related move instruction in front of cmpxchg), improving the
cmpxchg loop in gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref_v1 from:

     174:	eb 0e                	jmp    184 <...>
     176:	89 d0                	mov    %edx,%eax
     178:	f0 66 0f b1 31       	lock cmpxchg %si,(%rcx)
     17d:	66 39 c2             	cmp    %ax,%dx
     180:	74 11                	je     193 <...>
     182:	89 c2                	mov    %eax,%edx
     184:	89 d6                	mov    %edx,%esi
     186:	66 83 e6 18          	and    $0x18,%si
     18a:	74 ea                	je     176 <...>

to:

     614:	89 c1                	mov    %eax,%ecx
     616:	66 83 e1 18          	and    $0x18,%cx
     61a:	75 11                	jne    62d <...>
     61c:	f0 66 0f b1 0a       	lock cmpxchg %cx,(%rdx)
     621:	75 f1                	jne    614 <...>

No functional change intended.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>
---
v2: Improve commit description.
---
 drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c | 26 ++++++++++++--------------
 drivers/xen/grant-table.c        | 10 ++++------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c b/drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c
index ad9fe51d3fb3..655775db7caf 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c
@@ -226,21 +226,20 @@ static bool evtchn_fifo_is_masked(evtchn_port_t port)
  */
 static bool clear_masked_cond(volatile event_word_t *word)
 {
-	event_word_t new, old, w;
+	event_word_t new, old;
 
-	w = *word;
+	old = *word;
 
 	do {
-		if (!(w & (1 << EVTCHN_FIFO_MASKED)))
+		if (!(old & (1 << EVTCHN_FIFO_MASKED)))
 			return true;
 
-		if (w & (1 << EVTCHN_FIFO_PENDING))
+		if (old & (1 << EVTCHN_FIFO_PENDING))
 			return false;
 
-		old = w & ~(1 << EVTCHN_FIFO_BUSY);
+		old = old & ~(1 << EVTCHN_FIFO_BUSY);
 		new = old & ~(1 << EVTCHN_FIFO_MASKED);
-		w = sync_cmpxchg(word, old, new);
-	} while (w != old);
+	} while (!sync_try_cmpxchg(word, &old, new));
 
 	return true;
 }
@@ -259,17 +258,16 @@ static void evtchn_fifo_unmask(evtchn_port_t port)
 
 static uint32_t clear_linked(volatile event_word_t *word)
 {
-	event_word_t new, old, w;
+	event_word_t new, old;
 
-	w = *word;
+	old = *word;
 
 	do {
-		old = w;
-		new = (w & ~((1 << EVTCHN_FIFO_LINKED)
-			     | EVTCHN_FIFO_LINK_MASK));
-	} while ((w = sync_cmpxchg(word, old, new)) != old);
+		new = (old & ~((1 << EVTCHN_FIFO_LINKED)
+			       | EVTCHN_FIFO_LINK_MASK));
+	} while (!sync_try_cmpxchg(word, &old, new));
 
-	return w & EVTCHN_FIFO_LINK_MASK;
+	return old & EVTCHN_FIFO_LINK_MASK;
 }
 
 static void consume_one_event(unsigned cpu, struct evtchn_loop_ctrl *ctrl,
diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
index 35659bf70746..04a6b470b15d 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
@@ -427,16 +427,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gnttab_grant_foreign_access);
 
 static int gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref_v1(grant_ref_t ref)
 {
-	u16 flags, nflags;
-	u16 *pflags;
+	u16 *pflags = &gnttab_shared.v1[ref].flags;
+	u16 flags;
 
-	pflags = &gnttab_shared.v1[ref].flags;
-	nflags = *pflags;
+	flags = *pflags;
 	do {
-		flags = nflags;
 		if (flags & (GTF_reading|GTF_writing))
 			return 0;
-	} while ((nflags = sync_cmpxchg(pflags, flags, 0)) != flags);
+	} while (!sync_try_cmpxchg(pflags, &flags, 0));
 
 	return 1;
 }
-- 
2.41.0