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Implement SPINLOCK_LOCKVAL with an inline assembly, which makes use of the ALTERNATIVE macro, to read spinlock_lockval from lowcore. Provide an alternative instruction with a different offset in case lowcore is relocated. This replaces sequences of two instructions with one instruction. Before: 10602a: a7 78 00 00 lhi %r7,0 10602e: a5 8e 00 00 llilh %r8,0 106032: 58 d0 83 ac l %r13,940(%r8) 106036: ba 7d b5 80 cs %r7,%r13,1408(%r11) After: 10602a: a7 88 00 00 lhi %r8,0 10602e: e3 70 03 ac 00 58 ly %r7,940 106034: ba 87 b5 80 cs %r8,%r7,1408(%r11) Kernel image size change: add/remove: 756/750 grow/shrink: 646/3435 up/down: 30778/-46326 (-15548) Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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