8df728e1ae
The cmpxchg implementation introduced by commit c342f78217e8 ("arm64:
cmpxchg: patch in lse instructions when supported by the CPU") performs
an apparently redundant register move of [old] to [oldval] in the
success case - it always uses the same register width as [oldval] was
originally loaded with, and is only executed when [old] and [oldval] are
known to be equal anyway.
The only effect it seemingly does have is to take up a surprising amount
of space in the kernel text, as removing it reveals:
text data bss dec hex filename
12426658 1348614 4499749 18275021 116dacd vmlinux.o.new
12429238 1348614 4499749 18277601 116e4e1 vmlinux.o.old
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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