From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[6/8] i386: bitops: Don't mark memory as clobbered unnecessarily
The goal is to let gcc generate good, beautiful, optimized code.
But test_and_set_bit, test_and_clear_bit, __test_and_change_bit,
and test_and_change_bit unnecessarily mark all of memory as clobbered,
thereby preventing gcc from doing perfectly valid optimizations.
The case of __test_and_change_bit() is particularly surprising, given
that it's a variant where we don't make any guarantees at all.
Even for the other three cases, the (only) instruction that accesses
shared memory is btsl/btrl/btcl and requires locking and atomicity.
But we handle that properly already by the use of the lock prefix.
Also, "=m" is already specified in the output operands of the asm
for the passed bit-string pointer, so the gcc optimizer knows what
to do and what not to do anyway.
So there's no point clobbering all of memory in these functions.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/asm-i386/bitops.h | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/bitops.h b/include/asm-i386/bitops.h
index 0f5634b..f37b8a2 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/bitops.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/bitops.h
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static inline int test_and_set_bit(int nr, unsigned long
*addr)
__asm__ __volatile__( LOCK_PREFIX
"btsl %2,%1\n\tsbbl %0,%0"
:"=r" (oldbit),"=m" (*addr)
- :"r" (nr) : "memory");
+ :"r" (nr));
return oldbit;
}
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static inline int test_and_clear_bit(int nr, unsigned long
*addr)
__asm__ __volatile__( LOCK_PREFIX
"btrl %2,%1\n\tsbbl %0,%0"
:"=r" (oldbit),"=m" (*addr)
- :"r" (nr) : "memory");
+ :"r" (nr));
return oldbit;
}
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ static inline int __test_and_change_bit(int nr, unsigned
long *addr)
__asm__ __volatile__(
"btcl %2,%1\n\tsbbl %0,%0"
:"=r" (oldbit),"=m" (*addr)
- :"r" (nr) : "memory");
+ :"r" (nr));
return oldbit;
}
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static inline int test_and_change_bit(int nr, unsigned long
*addr)
__asm__ __volatile__( LOCK_PREFIX
"btcl %2,%1\n\tsbbl %0,%0"
:"=r" (oldbit),"=m" (*addr)
- :"r" (nr) : "memory");
+ :"r" (nr));
return oldbit;
}
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