Linus suggested using asm goto to get rid of the typical SETcc + TEST
instruction pair -- which also clobbers an extra register -- for our
typical modify_and_test() functions.
Because asm goto doesn't allow output fields it has to include an
unconditinal memory clobber when it changes a memory variable to force
a reload.
Luckily all atomic ops already imply a compiler barrier to go along
with their memory barrier semantics.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0mtn9siwbeo1d33bap1422se@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
