On Mon, 03 Jul 2023, Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Use local64_try_cmpxchg instead of local64_cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old
> in i915_pmu_event_read. x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag,
> so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move instruction
> in front of cmpxchg).
>
> Also, try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when cmpxchg
> fails. There is no need to re-read the value in the loop.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahti...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.v...@intel.com>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursu...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: David Airlie <airl...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <dan...@ffwll.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c | 9 ++++-----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c
> index d35973b41186..108b675088ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c
> @@ -696,12 +696,11 @@ static void i915_pmu_event_read(struct perf_event
> *event)
> event->hw.state = PERF_HES_STOPPED;
> return;
> }
> -again:
> - prev = local64_read(&hwc->prev_count);
> - new = __i915_pmu_event_read(event);
>
> - if (local64_cmpxchg(&hwc->prev_count, prev, new) != prev)
> - goto again;
> + prev = local64_read(&hwc->prev_count);
> + do {
> + new = __i915_pmu_event_read(event);
> + } while (!local64_try_cmpxchg(&hwc->prev_count, &prev, new));
Chased through the documentation again, and pushed to drm-intel-next.
Thanks for the patch.
BR,
Jani.
>
> local64_add(new - prev, &event->count);
> }
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Jani Nikula, Intel
