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The cost of changing a cacheline from shared to exclusive state can be
significant, especially when this is triggered by an exclusive store,
since it may result in having to retry the transaction.
This patch makes use of prefetch.w to prefetch cachelines for write
prior to lr/sc loops when using the xchg_small atomic routine.
This patch is inspired by commit 0ea366f5e1 ("arm64: atomics:
prefetch the destination word for write prior to stxr").
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231231082955.16516-4-guoren@kernel.org
Tested-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250421142441.395849-5-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.