BUILD: atomic/arm64: force the register pairs to use in __ha_cas_dw()
Since commit f8fb4f75f ("MINOR: atomic: implement a more efficient arm64
__ha_cas_dw() using pairs"), on some modern arm64 (armv8.1+) compiled
with -march=armv8.1-a under gcc-7.5.0, a build error may appear on ev_poll.o :
/tmp/ccHD2lN8.s:1771: Error: reg pair must start from even reg at operand 1 -- `casp x27,x28,x22,x23,[x12]'
Makefile:927: recipe for target 'src/ev_poll.o' failed
It appears that the compiler cannot always assign register pairs there
for a structure made of two u64. It was possibly later addressed since
gcc-9.3 never caused this, but there's no trivially available info on
the subject in the changelogs. Unsuprizingly, using a u128 instead does
fix this, but it significantly inflates the code (+4kB for just 6 places,
very likely that it loaded some extra stubs) and the comparison is ugly,
involving two slower conditional jumps instead of a single one and a
conditional comparison. For example, ha_random64() grew from 144 bytes
to 232.
However, simply forcing the base register does work pretty well, and
makes the code even cleaner and more efficient by further reducing it
by about 4.5kB, possibly because it helps the compiler to pick suitable
registers for the pair there. And the perf on 64-cores looks steadily
0.5% above the previous one, so let's do this.
Note that the commit above was backported to 2.3 to fix scalability
issues on AWS Graviton2 platform, so this one will need to be as well.
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