[patch 05/11] mutex subsystem, add include/asm-arm/mutex.h

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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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

----

 include/asm-arm/mutex.h |  144 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 144 insertions(+)

Index: linux/include/asm-arm/mutex.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ linux/include/asm-arm/mutex.h
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+/*
+ * 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 an "incomplete atomic decrement" or a "single value cmpxchg"
+ * since it has two modes of failure:
+ *
+ * 1) if the exclusive store fails we fail, and
+ *
+ * 2) if the decremented value is not zero we don't even attempt the store.
+ *
+ * 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;
+
+	__asm__ (
+
+		"ldrex		%0, [%2]	\n"
+		"subs		%0, %0, #1	\n"
+		"strexeq	%1, %0, [%2]	\n"
+
+		: "=&r" (__res), "=&r" (__ex_flag)
+		: "r" (&count->counter)
+		: "cc", "memory" );
+
+	/*
+	 * We must not return a synthetic 'failure' if the conditional
+	 * did not succeed - drop back into the generic slowpath if
+	 * this happens (should be rare):
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(__ex_flag))
+		return fn_name(count);
+
+	return __res == 0;
+}
+
+#endif
+#endif
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