perf auxtrace: Drop legacy __sync functions

The main purpose for using __sync built-in functions is to support
compat mode for 32-bit perf with 64-bit kernel.  But using these
built-in functions might cause potential issues.

__sync functions originally support Intel Itanium processoer [1] but it
cannot promise to support all 32-bit archs.  Now these functions have
become the legacy functions.

Considering __sync functions cannot really fix the 64-bit value
atomicity on 32-bit archs, thus this patch drops __sync functions.

Credits to Peter for detailed analysis.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fsync-Builtins.html#g_t_005f_005fsync-Builtins

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@linaro.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210809111407.596077-7-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
index 79227b8864cd..4f9176368134 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
@@ -440,12 +440,6 @@ struct auxtrace_cache;
 
 #ifdef HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT
 
-/*
- * In snapshot mode the mmapped page is read-only which makes using
- * __sync_val_compare_and_swap() problematic.  However, snapshot mode expects
- * the buffer is not updated while the snapshot is made (e.g. Intel PT disables
- * the event) so there is not a race anyway.
- */
 static inline u64 auxtrace_mmap__read_snapshot_head(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm)
 {
 	struct perf_event_mmap_page *pc = mm->userpg;
@@ -459,11 +453,7 @@ static inline u64 auxtrace_mmap__read_snapshot_head(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm)
 static inline u64 auxtrace_mmap__read_head(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm)
 {
 	struct perf_event_mmap_page *pc = mm->userpg;
-#if BITS_PER_LONG == 64 || !defined(HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_SUPPORT)
 	u64 head = READ_ONCE(pc->aux_head);
-#else
-	u64 head = __sync_val_compare_and_swap(&pc->aux_head, 0, 0);
-#endif
 
 	/* Ensure all reads are done after we read the head */
 	smp_rmb();
@@ -473,19 +463,10 @@ static inline u64 auxtrace_mmap__read_head(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm)
 static inline void auxtrace_mmap__write_tail(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm, u64 tail)
 {
 	struct perf_event_mmap_page *pc = mm->userpg;
-#if BITS_PER_LONG != 64 && defined(HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_SUPPORT)
-	u64 old_tail;
-#endif
 
 	/* Ensure all reads are done before we write the tail out */
 	smp_mb();
-#if BITS_PER_LONG == 64 || !defined(HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_SUPPORT)
 	WRITE_ONCE(pc->aux_tail, tail);
-#else
-	do {
-		old_tail = __sync_val_compare_and_swap(&pc->aux_tail, 0, 0);
-	} while (!__sync_bool_compare_and_swap(&pc->aux_tail, old_tail, tail));
-#endif
 }
 
 int auxtrace_mmap__mmap(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm,