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authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2007-02-20 15:25:12 +0000
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2007-02-20 15:25:12 +0000
commit8d8b6ba629c8f510b152ec4bac03a7d7ac25ab2f (patch)
tree6f8bdff5524c102594dd5b5a5b965812f23eef4d /libpthread/linuxthreads.old/sysdeps/bfin/pt-machine.h
parentf26d55b4cc3e98ce55fdae9b28369e9dc52bae2f (diff)
call kernel helper to do spinlocks
Diffstat (limited to 'libpthread/linuxthreads.old/sysdeps/bfin/pt-machine.h')
-rw-r--r--libpthread/linuxthreads.old/sysdeps/bfin/pt-machine.h35
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/libpthread/linuxthreads.old/sysdeps/bfin/pt-machine.h b/libpthread/linuxthreads.old/sysdeps/bfin/pt-machine.h
index fef16263e..c384cab06 100644
--- a/libpthread/linuxthreads.old/sysdeps/bfin/pt-machine.h
+++ b/libpthread/linuxthreads.old/sysdeps/bfin/pt-machine.h
@@ -26,32 +26,25 @@
#endif
extern long int testandset (int *spinlock);
-extern int __compare_and_swap (long *, long , long);
+#include <asm/unistd.h>
/* Spinlock implementation; required. */
+/* The semantics of the TESTSET instruction cannot be guaranteed. We cannot
+ easily move all locks used by linux kernel to non-cacheable memory.
+ EXCPT 0x4 is used to trap into kernel to do the atomic testandset.
+ It's ugly. But it's the only thing we can do now.
+ The handler of EXCPT 0x4 expects the address of the lock is passed through
+ R0. And the result is returned by R0. */
PT_EI long int
testandset (int *spinlock)
{
- if (*spinlock)
- return 1;
- else
- {
- *spinlock=1;
- return 0;
- }
-}
-
-#define HAS_COMPARE_AND_SWAP
-
-PT_EI int
-__compare_and_swap (long int *p, long int oldval, long int newval)
-{
- if((*p ^ oldval) == 0) {
- *p = newval;
- return 1;
- }
- else
- return 0;
+ long int res;
+ asm volatile ("R0 = %2; P0 = %4; EXCPT 0; %0 = R0;"
+ : "=d" (res), "=m" (*spinlock)
+ : "d" (spinlock), "m" (*spinlock),
+ "ida" (__NR_bfin_spinlock)
+ :"R0", "P0", "cc");
+ return res;
}
#endif /* pt-machine.h */