Commit 7bd99b40 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Catalin Marinas

arm64: Kconfig: Enable LSE atomics by default

Now that we're seeing CPUs shipping with LSE atomics, default them to
'on' in Kconfig. CPUs without the instructions will continue to use
LDXR/STXR-based sequences, but they will be placed out-of-line by the
compiler.
Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 159fd7b8
......@@ -1051,6 +1051,7 @@ config ARM64_PAN
config ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS
bool "Atomic instructions"
default y
help
As part of the Large System Extensions, ARMv8.1 introduces new
atomic instructions that are designed specifically to scale in
......@@ -1059,7 +1060,8 @@ config ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS
Say Y here to make use of these instructions for the in-kernel
atomic routines. This incurs a small overhead on CPUs that do
not support these instructions and requires the kernel to be
built with binutils >= 2.25.
built with binutils >= 2.25 in order for the new instructions
to be used.
config ARM64_VHE
bool "Enable support for Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE)"
......
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