Re: [PATCH] Speedup SMP kernel on UP box

[Paul Menage]

In article <[e-mail]>,
you write:
>@@ -9,9 +9,15 @@
>  */
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>-#define LOCK "lock ; "
>+#define LOCK "\n1:\tlock ; "
>+#define LOCK_ADDR	"\n" \
>+			".section .lock.init,\"a\"\n\t" \
>+			".align 4\n\t" \
>+			".long 1b\n" \
>+			".previous\n"

Why not do:

#define LOCK "1: lock ; \n" \
	 	".section .lock.init,\"a\"\n" \
		".align 4\n"\
		".long 1b\n"\
		".previous\n" 

Then you don't need the LOCK_ADDR macro, so most of atomic.h can be
left as is. The assembler doesn't seem to care that there's a section
change between the lock prefix and the instruction that it's locking.

Paul