powerpc: Use bytes instead of bitops in smp ipi multiplexing
Since there are only 4 messages, we can replace the atomic bit set (which uses atomic load reserve and store conditional sequence) with a byte stores to seperate bytes. We still have to perform a load reserve and store conditional sequence to avoid loosing messages on reception but we can do that with a single call to xchg. The do {} while and __BIG_ENDIAN specific mask testing was chosen by looking at the generated asm code. On gcc-4.4, the bit masking becomes a simple bit mask and test of the register returned from xchg without storing and loading the value to the stack like attempts with a union of bytes and an int (or worse, loading single bit constants from the constant pool into non-voliatle registers that had to be preseved on the stack). The do {} while avoids an unconditional branch to the end of the loop to test the entry / repeat condition of a while loop and instead optimises for the expected single iteration of the loop. We have a full mb() at the beginning to cover ordering between send, ipi, and receive so we can use xchg_local and forgo the further acquire and release barriers of xchg. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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