alistair23-linux/include/linux/types.h
Anton Blanchard 81880d603d atomic_t: Remove volatile from atomic_t definition
When looking at a performance problem on PowerPC, I noticed some awful code
generation:

c00000000051fc98:       3b 60 00 01     li      r27,1
...
c00000000051fca0:       3b 80 00 00     li      r28,0
...
c00000000051fcdc:       93 61 00 70     stw     r27,112(r1)
c00000000051fce0:       93 81 00 74     stw     r28,116(r1)
c00000000051fce4:       81 21 00 70     lwz     r9,112(r1)
c00000000051fce8:       80 01 00 74     lwz     r0,116(r1)
c00000000051fcec:       7d 29 07 b4     extsw   r9,r9
c00000000051fcf0:       7c 00 07 b4     extsw   r0,r0

c00000000051fcf4:       7c 20 04 ac     lwsync
c00000000051fcf8:       7d 60 f8 28     lwarx   r11,0,r31
c00000000051fcfc:       7c 0b 48 00     cmpw    r11,r9
c00000000051fd00:       40 c2 00 10     bne-    c00000000051fd10
c00000000051fd04:       7c 00 f9 2d     stwcx.  r0,0,r31
c00000000051fd08:       40 c2 ff f0     bne+    c00000000051fcf8
c00000000051fd0c:       4c 00 01 2c     isync

We create two constants, write them out to the stack, read them straight back
in and sign extend them. What a mess.

It turns out this bad code is a result of us defining atomic_t as a
volatile int.

We removed the volatile attribute from the powerpc atomic_t definition years
ago, but commit ea43546750 (atomic_t: unify all
arch definitions) added it back in.

To dig up an old quote from Linus:

> The fact is, volatile on data structures is a bug. It's a wart in the C
> language. It shouldn't be used.
>
> Volatile accesses in *code* can be ok, and if we have "atomic_read()"
> expand to a "*(volatile int *)&(x)->value", then I'd be ok with that.
>
> But marking data structures volatile just makes the compiler screw up
> totally, and makes code for initialization sequences etc much worse.

And screw up it does :)

With the volatile removed, we see much more reasonable code generation:

c00000000051f5b8:       3b 60 00 01     li      r27,1
...
c00000000051f5c0:       3b 80 00 00     li      r28,0
...

c00000000051fc7c:       7c 20 04 ac     lwsync
c00000000051fc80:       7c 00 f8 28     lwarx   r0,0,r31
c00000000051fc84:       7c 00 d8 00     cmpw    r0,r27
c00000000051fc88:       40 c2 00 10     bne-    c00000000051fc98
c00000000051fc8c:       7f 80 f9 2d     stwcx.  r28,0,r31
c00000000051fc90:       40 c2 ff f0     bne+    c00000000051fc80
c00000000051fc94:       4c 00 01 2c     isync

Six instructions less.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-17 07:57:27 -07:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_TYPES_H
#define _LINUX_TYPES_H
#include <asm/types.h>
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#define DECLARE_BITMAP(name,bits) \
unsigned long name[BITS_TO_LONGS(bits)]
#endif
#include <linux/posix_types.h>
#ifdef __KERNEL__
typedef __u32 __kernel_dev_t;
typedef __kernel_fd_set fd_set;
typedef __kernel_dev_t dev_t;
typedef __kernel_ino_t ino_t;
typedef __kernel_mode_t mode_t;
typedef __kernel_nlink_t nlink_t;
typedef __kernel_off_t off_t;
typedef __kernel_pid_t pid_t;
typedef __kernel_daddr_t daddr_t;
typedef __kernel_key_t key_t;
typedef __kernel_suseconds_t suseconds_t;
typedef __kernel_timer_t timer_t;
typedef __kernel_clockid_t clockid_t;
typedef __kernel_mqd_t mqd_t;
typedef _Bool bool;
typedef __kernel_uid32_t uid_t;
typedef __kernel_gid32_t gid_t;
typedef __kernel_uid16_t uid16_t;
typedef __kernel_gid16_t gid16_t;
typedef unsigned long uintptr_t;
#ifdef CONFIG_UID16
/* This is defined by include/asm-{arch}/posix_types.h */
typedef __kernel_old_uid_t old_uid_t;
typedef __kernel_old_gid_t old_gid_t;
#endif /* CONFIG_UID16 */
#if defined(__GNUC__)
typedef __kernel_loff_t loff_t;
#endif
/*
* The following typedefs are also protected by individual ifdefs for
* historical reasons:
*/
#ifndef _SIZE_T
#define _SIZE_T
typedef __kernel_size_t size_t;
#endif
#ifndef _SSIZE_T
#define _SSIZE_T
typedef __kernel_ssize_t ssize_t;
#endif
#ifndef _PTRDIFF_T
#define _PTRDIFF_T
typedef __kernel_ptrdiff_t ptrdiff_t;
#endif
#ifndef _TIME_T
#define _TIME_T
typedef __kernel_time_t time_t;
#endif
#ifndef _CLOCK_T
#define _CLOCK_T
typedef __kernel_clock_t clock_t;
#endif
#ifndef _CADDR_T
#define _CADDR_T
typedef __kernel_caddr_t caddr_t;
#endif
/* bsd */
typedef unsigned char u_char;
typedef unsigned short u_short;
typedef unsigned int u_int;
typedef unsigned long u_long;
/* sysv */
typedef unsigned char unchar;
typedef unsigned short ushort;
typedef unsigned int uint;
typedef unsigned long ulong;
#ifndef __BIT_TYPES_DEFINED__
#define __BIT_TYPES_DEFINED__
typedef __u8 u_int8_t;
typedef __s8 int8_t;
typedef __u16 u_int16_t;
typedef __s16 int16_t;
typedef __u32 u_int32_t;
typedef __s32 int32_t;
#endif /* !(__BIT_TYPES_DEFINED__) */
typedef __u8 uint8_t;
typedef __u16 uint16_t;
typedef __u32 uint32_t;
#if defined(__GNUC__)
typedef __u64 uint64_t;
typedef __u64 u_int64_t;
typedef __s64 int64_t;
#endif
/* this is a special 64bit data type that is 8-byte aligned */
#define aligned_u64 __u64 __attribute__((aligned(8)))
#define aligned_be64 __be64 __attribute__((aligned(8)))
#define aligned_le64 __le64 __attribute__((aligned(8)))
/**
* The type used for indexing onto a disc or disc partition.
*
* Linux always considers sectors to be 512 bytes long independently
* of the devices real block size.
*
* blkcnt_t is the type of the inode's block count.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_LBDAF
typedef u64 sector_t;
typedef u64 blkcnt_t;
#else
typedef unsigned long sector_t;
typedef unsigned long blkcnt_t;
#endif
/*
* The type of an index into the pagecache. Use a #define so asm/types.h
* can override it.
*/
#ifndef pgoff_t
#define pgoff_t unsigned long
#endif
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
/*
* Below are truly Linux-specific types that should never collide with
* any application/library that wants linux/types.h.
*/
#ifdef __CHECKER__
#define __bitwise__ __attribute__((bitwise))
#else
#define __bitwise__
#endif
#ifdef __CHECK_ENDIAN__
#define __bitwise __bitwise__
#else
#define __bitwise
#endif
typedef __u16 __bitwise __le16;
typedef __u16 __bitwise __be16;
typedef __u32 __bitwise __le32;
typedef __u32 __bitwise __be32;
typedef __u64 __bitwise __le64;
typedef __u64 __bitwise __be64;
typedef __u16 __bitwise __sum16;
typedef __u32 __bitwise __wsum;
#ifdef __KERNEL__
typedef unsigned __bitwise__ gfp_t;
typedef unsigned __bitwise__ fmode_t;
#ifdef CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
typedef u64 phys_addr_t;
#else
typedef u32 phys_addr_t;
#endif
typedef phys_addr_t resource_size_t;
typedef struct {
int counter;
} atomic_t;
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
typedef struct {
long counter;
} atomic64_t;
#endif
struct ustat {
__kernel_daddr_t f_tfree;
__kernel_ino_t f_tinode;
char f_fname[6];
char f_fpack[6];
};
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_TYPES_H */