From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: "Karl Mehltretter" <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
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"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Linus Walleij" <linusw@kernel.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: cmpxchg: support 2-byte xchg() on pre-ARMv6 CPUs
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 11:38:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261003093827.77857-2-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261003093827.77857-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Pre-ARMv6 CPUs have no halfword swp, so __arch_xchg() only handles 1-
and 4-byte exchanges there and turns any other size into a link error
via __bad_xchg().
No C code needs a 16-bit xchg() on these CPUs, but the Rust atomic
helpers in rust/helpers/atomic_ext.c provide xchg() for Atomic<i16>
unconditionally, so building with CONFIG_RUST=y for ARMv5 fails:
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __bad_xchg
>>> referenced by helpers.c
>>> rust/helpers/helpers.o:(rust_helper_atomic_i16_xchg)
Implement the 2-byte case with interrupts disabled, as the pre-ARMv6
atomic_t operations already do. This is safe because SMP requires
ARMv6K or later.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
index 9beb64d30586..3077f7d7f520 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -31,11 +31,10 @@ __arch_xchg(unsigned long x, volatile void *ptr, int size)
{
extern void __bad_xchg(volatile void *, int);
unsigned long ret;
-#ifdef swp_is_buggy
- unsigned long flags;
-#endif
#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
unsigned int tmp;
+#else
+ unsigned long flags;
#endif
prefetchw((const void *)ptr);
@@ -106,6 +105,15 @@ __arch_xchg(unsigned long x, volatile void *ptr, int size)
: "r" (x), "r" (ptr)
: "memory", "cc");
break;
+#endif
+#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6
+ case 2:
+ /* swp has no halfword form. Pre-ARMv6 is never SMP. */
+ raw_local_irq_save(flags);
+ ret = *(volatile unsigned short *)ptr;
+ *(volatile unsigned short *)ptr = x;
+ raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
+ break;
#endif
default:
/* Cause a link-time error, the xchg() size is not supported */
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-03 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-03 9:38 [PATCH 0/2] ARM: rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv5TE Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-03 9:38 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
2026-10-03 10:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: cmpxchg: support 2-byte xchg() on pre-ARMv6 CPUs Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-06 10:32 ` Linus Walleij
2026-10-06 14:48 ` Bradley Morgan
2026-10-03 9:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv5TE Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-03 10:24 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-10-04 18:56 ` Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-03 10:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-03 17:07 ` Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-03 20:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-05 4:20 ` Karl Mehltretter
2026-10-03 16:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Bradley Morgan
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