On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 17:58 +0100, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> typedef struct {
> - volatile unsigned int slock;
> -} arch_spinlock_t;
> + union {
> + __ticketpair_t head_tail;
> + struct __raw_tickets {
> +#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__ /* The "tail" part should be in the MSBs */
> + __ticket_t tail, head;
> +#else
> + __ticket_t head, tail;
> +#endif
> + } tickets;
> + };
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR)
> + u32 holder;
> +#endif
> +} arch_spinlock_t __aligned(4);
That's still broken with lockref (which we just merged).
We must have the arch_spinlock_t and the ref in the same 64-bit word
otherwise it will break.
We can make it work in theory since the holder doesn't have to be
accessed atomically, but the practicals are a complete mess ...
lockref would essentially have to re-implement the holder handling
of the spinlocks and use lower level ticket stuff.
Unless you can find a sneaky trick ... :-(
Ben.
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