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authorChristoph Müllner <christoph.muellner@vrull.eu>2024-04-18 23:58:58 +0200
committerAndreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>2024-06-24 21:36:49 +0200
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RISC-V: Execute a PAUSE hint in spin loops
The atomic_spin_nop() macro can be used to run arch-specific
code in the body of a spin loop to potentially improve efficiency.
RISC-V's Zihintpause extension includes a PAUSE instruction for
this use-case, which is encoded as a HINT, which means that it
behaves like a NOP on systems that don't implement Zihintpause.

Binutils supports Zihintpause since 2.36, so this patch uses
the ".insn" directive to keep the code compatible with older
toolchains.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Müllner <christoph.muellner@vrull.eu>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/atomic-machine.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/atomic-machine.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/atomic-machine.h
index c1c9d949a0..90283d9746 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/atomic-machine.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/atomic-machine.h
@@ -178,4 +178,7 @@
 # error "ISAs that do not subsume the A extension are not supported"
 #endif /* !__riscv_atomic */
 
+/* Execute a PAUSE hint when spinning.  */
+#define atomic_spin_nop() __asm(".insn i 0x0f, 0, x0, x0, 0x010")
+
 #endif /* bits/atomic.h */