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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: futex: add SMP futex support when !CPU_USE_DOMAINS
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:29:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303313347.11314.4.camel@e102144-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302267519-18156-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 13:58 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> This patch uses the load/store exclusive instructions to add SMP futex
> support for ARM.
> 
> Since the ARM architecture does not provide instructions for
> unprivileged exclusive memory accesses, we can only provide SMP futexes
> when CPU domain support is disabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h |  137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

Any comments on this patch? The LTP tests for {get,set}_robust_list seem
happy enough but any review would be welcome.

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-08 12:58 [PATCH] ARM: futex: add SMP futex support when !CPU_USE_DOMAINS Will Deacon
2011-04-20 15:29 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2011-04-20 17:41   ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-21 14:35     ` Will Deacon

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