include/linux/prefetch.h does a strange thing: if the arch doesn't have
the prefectch functions, this header defines no-op version of them and
then defines ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH. So there's no way for mainline code to
know if the architecture *really* has prefetch instructions.
This information loss is unfortunate. Examples:
for (i = 0; i < N; i++)
prefetch(foo[i]);
Problem is, if `prefetch' is a no-op, the compiler will still
generate an empty busy-wait loop. Which it must do. We need to
know the truth about ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH to correctly elide that loop.
#ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
#define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
do { \
if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
struct page *prev; \
\
prev = list_entry(_page->lru.prev, \
struct page, lru); \
prefetch(&prev->_field); \
} \
} while (0)
#else
#define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
#endif
Which needs a working ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH to avoid probable extra code
generation on CPUs which don't have prefetch.
prefetch.h | 3 ---
1 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- 2.5.31/include/linux/prefetch.h~arch_has_prefetchw Sun Aug 11 00:20:08 2002
+++ 2.5.31-akpm/include/linux/prefetch.h Sun Aug 11 00:20:08 2002
@@ -39,17 +39,14 @@
*/
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
-#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
static inline void prefetch(const void *x) {;}
#endif
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
-#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
static inline void prefetchw(const void *x) {;}
#endif
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SPINLOCK_PREFETCH
-#define ARCH_HAS_SPINLOCK_PREFETCH
#define spin_lock_prefetch(x) prefetchw(x)
#endif
.
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