Emulates the cmpxchg_local by disabling interrupts around variable modification.
This is not reentrant wrt NMIs and MCEs. It is only protected against normal
interrupts, but this is enough for architectures without such interrupt sources
or if used in a context where the data is not shared with such handlers.
It can be used as a fallback for architectures lacking a real cmpxchg
instruction.
For architectures that have a real cmpxchg but does not have NMIs or MCE,
testing which of the generic vs architecture specific cmpxchg is the fastest
should be done.
asm-generic/cmpxchg.h defines a cmpxchg that uses cmpxchg_local. It is meant to
be used as a cmpxchg fallback for architectures that do not support SMP.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
---
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg.h | 22 +++++++++++++
2 files changed, 82 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg.h 2007-08-22 10:45:12.000000000 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_CMPXCHG_H
+#define __ASM_GENERIC_CMPXCHG_H
+
+/*
+ * Generic cmpxchg
+ *
+ * Uses the local cmpxchg. Does not support SMP.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+#error "Cannot use generic cmpxchg on SMP"
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Atomic compare and exchange.
+ *
+ * Do not define __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG because we want to use it to check whether
+ * a cmpxchg primitive faster than repeated local irq save/restore exists.
+ */
+#define cmpxchg(ptr,o,n) cmpxchg_local((ptr), (o), (n))
+#define cmpxchg64(ptr,o,n) cmpxchg64_local((ptr), (o), (n))
+
+#endif
Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h 2007-08-20 17:54:12.000000000 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_CMPXCHG_LOCAL_H
+#define __ASM_GENERIC_CMPXCHG_LOCAL_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+extern unsigned long wrong_size_cmpxchg(volatile void *ptr);
+
+/*
+ * Generic version of __cmpxchg_local (disables interrupts). Takes an unsigned
+ * long parameter, supporting various types of architectures.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg_local_generic(volatile void *ptr,
+ unsigned long old,
+ unsigned long new, int size)
+{
+ unsigned long flags, prev;
+
+ /*
+ * Sanity checking, compile-time.
+ */
+ if (size == 8 && sizeof(unsigned long) != 8)
+ wrong_size_cmpxchg(ptr);
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ switch (size) {
+ case 1: if ((prev = *(u8*)ptr) == old)
+ *(u8*)ptr = (u8)new;
+ break;
+ case 2: if ((prev = *(u16*)ptr) == old)
+ *(u16*)ptr = (u16)new;
+ break;
+ case 4: if ((prev = *(u32*)ptr) == old)
+ *(u32*)ptr = (u32)new;
+ break;
+ case 8: if ((prev = *(u64*)ptr) == old)
+ *(u64*)ptr = (u64)new;
+ break;
+ default:
+ wrong_size_cmpxchg(ptr);
+ }
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+ return prev;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Generic version of __cmpxchg64_local. Takes an u64 parameter.
+ */
+static inline u64 __cmpxchg64_local_generic(volatile void *ptr, u64 old, u64 new)
+{
+ u64 prev;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ if ((prev = *(u64*)ptr) == old)
+ *(u64*)ptr = new;
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+ return prev;
+}
+
+#endif
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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