On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:10:53PM +0000, Sarbojit Ganguly wrote:
> My sincere apologies for the format issue. This was due to the e-mail editor
> which reformats the text.
> I am reposting the patch, please let me know if it is ok this time.
>
>
> v1-->v2 : Extended the guard code to cover the byte exchange case as
> well following opinion of Will Deacon.
> Checkpatch has been run and issues were taken care of.
>
> Since support for half-word atomic exchange was not there and Qspinlock
> on ARM requires it, modified __xchg() to add support for that as well.
> ARMv6 and lower does not support ldrex{b,h} so, added a guard code
> to prevent build breaks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sarbojit Ganguly <gangul...@samsung.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> index 916a274..a53cbeb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __xchg(unsigned long x,
> volatile void *ptr, int size
>
> switch (size) {
> #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_CPU_V6)
#ifndef ? (to match the __cmpxchg code).
> case 1:
> asm volatile("@ __xchg1\n"
> "1: ldrexb %0, [%3]\n"
> @@ -49,6 +50,22 @@ static inline unsigned long __xchg(unsigned long x,
> volatile void *ptr, int size
> : "r" (x), "r" (ptr)
> : "memory", "cc");
> break;
> +
> + /*
> + * Half-word atomic exchange, required
> + * for Qspinlock support on ARM.
> + */
I think I said it before, but I don't think this comment is of any real
value.
Other than those, this looks ok to me.
Will
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