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authorVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>2016-10-20 07:39:45 -0700
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>2016-10-24 09:24:26 -0700
commit91e040a79df73d371f70792f30380d4e44805250 (patch)
treeb2732eadb60fc5575c465a81cc637a899330c1b5 /arch/arc
parent1dec78585328db00e33fb18dc1a6deed0e2095a5 (diff)
ARC: syscall for userspace cmpxchg assist
Older ARC700 cores (ARC750 specifically) lack instructions to implement atomic r-w-w. This is problematic for userspace libraries such as NPTL which need atomic primitives. So enable them by providing kernel assist. This is costly but really the only sane soluton (othern than tight spinning using the otherwise availiable atomic exchange EX instruciton). Good thing is there are only a few of these cores running Linux out in the wild. This only works on UP systems. Reviewed-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arc')
-rw-r--r--arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h9
-rw-r--r--arch/arc/kernel/process.c33
3 files changed, 39 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h
index e56f9fcc5581..772b67ca56e7 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ int sys_clone_wrapper(int, int, int, int, int);
int sys_cacheflush(uint32_t, uint32_t uint32_t);
int sys_arc_settls(void *);
int sys_arc_gettls(void);
+int sys_arc_usr_cmpxchg(int *, int, int);
#include <asm-generic/syscalls.h>
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
index 41fa2ec9e02c..9a34136d84b2 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
@@ -27,18 +27,19 @@
#define NR_syscalls __NR_syscalls
+/* Generic syscall (fs/filesystems.c - lost in asm-generic/unistd.h */
+#define __NR_sysfs (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 3)
+
/* ARC specific syscall */
#define __NR_cacheflush (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 0)
#define __NR_arc_settls (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 1)
#define __NR_arc_gettls (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 2)
+#define __NR_arc_usr_cmpxchg (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 4)
__SYSCALL(__NR_cacheflush, sys_cacheflush)
__SYSCALL(__NR_arc_settls, sys_arc_settls)
__SYSCALL(__NR_arc_gettls, sys_arc_gettls)
-
-
-/* Generic syscall (fs/filesystems.c - lost in asm-generic/unistd.h */
-#define __NR_sysfs (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 3)
+__SYSCALL(__NR_arc_usr_cmpxchg, sys_arc_usr_cmpxchg)
__SYSCALL(__NR_sysfs, sys_sysfs)
#undef __SYSCALL
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/process.c b/arch/arc/kernel/process.c
index be1972bd2729..59aa43cb146e 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/process.c
@@ -41,6 +41,39 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(arc_gettls)
return task_thread_info(current)->thr_ptr;
}
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(arc_usr_cmpxchg, int *, uaddr, int, expected, int, new)
+{
+ int uval;
+ int ret;
+
+ /*
+ * This is only for old cores lacking LLOCK/SCOND, which by defintion
+ * can't possibly be SMP. Thus doesn't need to be SMP safe.
+ * And this also helps reduce the overhead for serializing in
+ * the UP case
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP));
+
+ if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(int)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ preempt_disable();
+
+ ret = __get_user(uval, uaddr);
+ if (ret)
+ goto done;
+
+ if (uval != expected)
+ ret = -EAGAIN;
+ else
+ ret = __put_user(new, uaddr);
+
+done:
+ preempt_enable();
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
void arch_cpu_idle(void)
{
/* sleep, but enable all interrupts before committing */