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[3/3] NPTL/ARC: provide a kernel assisted atomic cmpxchg

Message ID 1478565100-23924-4-git-send-email-vgupta@synopsys.com
State New
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Vineet Gupta Nov. 8, 2016, 12:31 a.m. UTC
For hardware configurations lacking LLOCK/SCOND (say ARC750),
use a syscall to atomically do the cmpxchg.
This is costly and painful, but really the only way out.

Note that kenrel only guarantees this to work in a UP configuraion

Reported-by: Avinash Patil <avinashp@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
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 libc/sysdeps/linux/arc/bits/atomic.h | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/arc/bits/atomic.h b/libc/sysdeps/linux/arc/bits/atomic.h
index 48f37879c5c4..587860964744 100644
--- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/arc/bits/atomic.h
+++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/arc/bits/atomic.h
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@  void __arc_link_error (void);
 #define __arch_compare_and_exchange_val_16_acq(mem, newval, oldval) \
   ({ __arc_link_error (); oldval; })
 
+#define __arch_compare_and_exchange_val_64_acq(mem, newval, oldval)	\
+  ({ __arc_link_error (); oldval; })
+
+#ifdef __CONFIG_ARC_HAS_ATOMICS__
+
 #define __arch_compare_and_exchange_val_32_acq(mem, newval, oldval)     \
   ({									\
 	__typeof(oldval) prev;						\
@@ -56,8 +61,36 @@  void __arc_link_error (void);
 	prev;								\
   })
 
-#define __arch_compare_and_exchange_val_64_acq(mem, newval, oldval) \
-  ({ __arc_link_error (); oldval; })
+#else
+
+#ifndef __NR_arc_usr_cmpxchg
+#error "__NR_arc_usr_cmpxchg missing: Please upgrade to kernel 4.9+ headers"
+#endif
+
+/* With lack of hardware assist, use kernel to do the atomic operation
+   This will only work in a UP configuration
+ */
+#define __arch_compare_and_exchange_val_32_acq(mem, newval, oldval)     \
+  ({									\
+	/* opecode INTERNAL_SYSCALL as it lacks cc clobber */		\
+	register int __ret __asm__("r0") = (int)(mem);			\
+	register int __a1 __asm__("r1") = (int)(oldval);		\
+	register int __a2 __asm__("r2") = (int)(newval);		\
+	register int _sys_num __asm__("r8") = __NR_arc_usr_cmpxchg;	\
+									\
+        __asm__ volatile (						\
+		ARC_TRAP_INSN						\
+		: "+r" (__ret)						\
+		: "r"(_sys_num), "r"(__ret), "r"(__a1), "r"(__a2)	\
+		: "memory", "cc");					\
+									\
+	/* syscall returns previous value */				\
+	/* Z bit is set if cmpxchg succeeded (we don't use that yet) */	\
+									\
+	(__typeof(oldval)) __ret;					\
+  })
+
+#endif
 
 /* Store NEWVALUE in *MEM and return the old value.
    Atomic EX is present in all configurations