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* [patch 05/13] mutex subsystem, add include/asm-arm/mutex.h
@ 2005-12-29 21:03 Ingo Molnar
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From: Ingo Molnar @ 2005-12-29 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml
  Cc: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Arjan van de Ven, Nicolas Pitre,
	Jes Sorensen, Al Viro, Oleg Nesterov, David Howells, Alan Cox,
	Christoph Hellwig, Andi Kleen, Russell King

add the ARM version of mutex.h, which is optimized in assembly for
ARMv6, and uses the xchg implementation on pre-ARMv6.

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

----

 include/asm-arm/mutex.h |  134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 134 insertions(+)

Index: linux/include/asm-arm/mutex.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ linux/include/asm-arm/mutex.h
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+/*
+ * include/asm-arm/mutex.h
+ *
+ * ARM optimized mutex locking primitives
+ *
+ * Please look into asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h for a formal definition.
+ */
+#ifndef _ASM_MUTEX_H
+#define _ASM_MUTEX_H
+
+#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6
+/* On pre-ARMv6 hardware the swp based implementation is the most efficient. */
+# include <asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h>
+#else
+
+/*
+ * Attempting to lock a mutex on ARMv6+ can be done with a bastardized
+ * atomic decrement (it is not a reliable atomic decrement but it satisfies
+ * the defined semantics for our purpose, while being smaller and faster
+ * than a real atomic decrement or atomic swap.  The idea is to attempt
+ * decrementing the lock value only once.  If once decremented it isn't zero,
+ * or if its store-back fails due to a dispute on the exclusive store, we
+ * simply bail out immediately through the slow path where the lock will be
+ * reattempted until it succeeds.
+ */
+#define __mutex_fastpath_lock(count, fail_fn)				\
+do {									\
+	/* type-check the function too: */				\
+	void fastcall (*__tmp)(atomic_t *) = fail_fn;			\
+	int __ex_flag, __res;						\
+									\
+	(void)__tmp;							\
+	typecheck(atomic_t *, count);					\
+									\
+	__asm__ (							\
+		"ldrex	%0, [%2]	\n"				\
+		"sub	%0, %0, #1	\n"				\
+		"strex	%1, %0, [%2]	\n"				\
+									\
+		: "=&r" (__res), "=&r" (__ex_flag)			\
+		: "r" (&(count)->counter)				\
+		: "cc","memory" );					\
+									\
+	if (unlikely(__res || __ex_flag))				\
+		fail_fn(count);						\
+} while (0)
+
+#define __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval(count, fail_fn)			\
+({									\
+	/* type-check the function too: */				\
+	int fastcall (*__tmp)(atomic_t *) = fail_fn;			\
+	int __ex_flag, __res;						\
+									\
+	(void)__tmp;							\
+	typecheck(atomic_t *, count);					\
+									\
+	__asm__ (							\
+		"ldrex	%0, [%2]	\n"				\
+		"sub	%0, %0, #1	\n"				\
+		"strex	%1, %0, [%2]	\n"				\
+									\
+		: "=&r" (__res), "=&r" (__ex_flag)			\
+		: "r" (&(count)->counter)				\
+		: "cc","memory" );					\
+									\
+	__res |= __ex_flag;						\
+	if (unlikely(__res != 0))					\
+		__res = fail_fn(count);					\
+	__res;								\
+})
+
+/*
+ * Same trick is used for the unlock fast path. However the original value,
+ * rather than the result, is used to test for success in order to have
+ * better generated assembly.
+ */
+#define __mutex_fastpath_unlock(count, fail_fn)				\
+do {									\
+	/* type-check the function too: */				\
+	void fastcall (*__tmp)(atomic_t *) = fail_fn;			\
+	int __ex_flag, __res, __orig;					\
+									\
+	(void)__tmp;							\
+	typecheck(atomic_t *, count);					\
+									\
+	__asm__ (							\
+		"ldrex	%0, [%3]	\n"				\
+		"add	%1, %0, #1	\n"				\
+		"strex	%2, %1, [%3]	\n"				\
+									\
+		: "=&r" (__orig), "=&r" (__res), "=&r" (__ex_flag)	\
+		: "r" (&(count)->counter)				\
+		: "cc","memory" );					\
+									\
+	if (unlikely(__orig || __ex_flag))				\
+		fail_fn(count);						\
+} while (0)
+
+/*
+ * If the unlock was done on a contended lock, or if the unlock simply fails
+ * then the mutex remains locked.
+ */
+#define __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock()	1
+
+/*
+ * For __mutex_fastpath_trylock we use another construct which could be
+ * described as a "single value cmpxchg".
+ *
+ * This provides the needed trylock semantics like cmpxchg would, but it is
+ * lighter and less generic than a true cmpxchg implementation.
+ */
+static inline int
+__mutex_fastpath_trylock(atomic_t *count, int (*fn_name)(atomic_t *))
+{
+	int __ex_flag, __res, __orig;
+
+	__asm__ (
+
+		"1: ldrex	%0, [%3]	\n"
+		"subs		%1, %0, #1	\n"
+		"strexeq	%2, %1, [%3]	\n"
+		"movlt		%0, #0		\n"
+		"cmpeq		%2, #0		\n"
+		"bgt		1b		\n"
+
+		: "=&r" (__orig), "=&r" (__res), "=&r" (__ex_flag)
+		: "r" (&count->counter)
+		: "cc", "memory" );
+
+	return __orig;
+}
+
+#endif
+#endif

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