Christoph Müllner 81c7f6193c 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>

2024-06-24 21:36:49 +02:00

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