Re: Re: [RFC] arm: Add for atomic half word exchange

[Sarbojit Ganguly <ganguly.s@samsung.com>]

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I made the CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V6=y and 
CONFIG_CPU_V6K=y
CONFIG_CPU_32v6=y
CONFIG_CPU_32v6K=y

and compiled 4.0.4 with the patch. Result is a compilation success. 

Regards,
Sarbojit

------- Original Message -------
Sender : Arnd Bergmann<arnd@arndb.de>
Date : May 19, 2015 18:51 (GMT+09:00)
Title : Re: [RFC] arm: Add for atomic half word exchange

On Tuesday 19 May 2015 09:39:33 Sarbojit Ganguly wrote:
> Since 16 bit half word exchange was not there and MCS based qspinlock by Waiman's xchg_tail() requires an atomic exchange on a half word,
> here is a small modification to __xchg() code.

We have discussed a similar patch before, see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/25/390

>  #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
> @@ -50,6 +52,23 @@
>                         : "r" (x), "r" (ptr)
>                         : "memory", "cc");
>                 break;
> +               /* 
> +                * halfword exclusive exchange
> +                * This is new implementation as qspinlock
> +                * wants 16 bit atomic CAS.
> +                */
> +       case 2:
> +               asm volatile("@ __xchg2\n"
> +               "1:     ldrexh  %0, [%3]\n"
> +               "       strexh  %1, %2, [%3]\n"
> +               "       teq     %1, #0\n"
> +               "       bne     1b"
> +                       : "=&r" (ret), "=&r" (tmp)
> +                       : "r" (x), "r" (ptr)
> +                       : "memory", "cc");
> +               break;
>         case 4: 
>                 asm volatile("@ __xchg4\n"
>                 "1:     ldrex   %0, [%3]\n"

Please try to find a way to make this compile when CONFIG_CPU_V6
is set.

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