Nick Piggin wrote:
I think ARMv6 has a decent atomic_cmpxchg implementation but does
not define __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG. It might be useful to try to use this
for ARMv6 SMP for a slightly better trylock.
And on UP builds, it may simply be best to open code an interrupt unsafe
cmpxchg and use atomic_cmpxchg unconditionally on SMP builds (which I
think generates half decent code on all SMP architectures).
Just something to think about. Of course this will require the dreaded
preempt_disable() which might make it a showstopper.
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