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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-09-18 23:27:05 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-09-18 23:30:11 +0100
commit200b812d0084f800bc52465e273b118ff5f8141f (patch)
tree6dbef78960ad7b83a76df064751275913583068c /arch
parentdf58bee21ed218cb7dfb561a590b1bd2a99531cf (diff)
Clear the exclusive monitor when returning from an exception
The patch adds a CLREX or dummy STREX to the exception return path. This is needed because several atomic/locking operations use a pair of LDREX/STREXEQ and the EQ condition may not always be satisfied. This would leave the exclusive monitor status set and may cause problems with atomic/locking operations in the interrupted code. With this patch, the atomic_set() operation can be a simple STR instruction (on SMP systems, the global exclusive monitor is cleared by STR anyway). Clearing the exclusive monitor during context switch is no longer needed as this is handled by the exception return path anyway. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h26
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S7
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S14
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h
index 9ed2377fe8e..d0daeab2234 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h
@@ -19,31 +19,21 @@
#ifdef __KERNEL__
+/*
+ * On ARM, ordinary assignment (str instruction) doesn't clear the local
+ * strex/ldrex monitor on some implementations. The reason we can use it for
+ * atomic_set() is the clrex or dummy strex done on every exception return.
+ */
#define atomic_read(v) ((v)->counter)
+#define atomic_set(v,i) (((v)->counter) = (i))
#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
/*
* ARMv6 UP and SMP safe atomic ops. We use load exclusive and
* store exclusive to ensure that these are atomic. We may loop
- * to ensure that the update happens. Writing to 'v->counter'
- * without using the following operations WILL break the atomic
- * nature of these ops.
+ * to ensure that the update happens.
*/
-static inline void atomic_set(atomic_t *v, int i)
-{
- unsigned long tmp;
-
- __asm__ __volatile__("@ atomic_set\n"
-"1: ldrex %0, [%1]\n"
-" strex %0, %2, [%1]\n"
-" teq %0, #0\n"
-" bne 1b"
- : "=&r" (tmp)
- : "r" (&v->counter), "r" (i)
- : "cc");
-}
-
static inline void atomic_add(int i, atomic_t *v)
{
unsigned long tmp;
@@ -163,8 +153,6 @@ static inline void atomic_clear_mask(unsigned long mask, unsigned long *addr)
#error SMP not supported on pre-ARMv6 CPUs
#endif
-#define atomic_set(v,i) (((v)->counter) = (i))
-
static inline int atomic_add_return(int i, atomic_t *v)
{
unsigned long flags;
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
index 3d727a8a23b..a332bc7225b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
@@ -734,13 +734,6 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to)
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
ldr r6, [r2, #TI_CPU_DOMAIN]
#endif
-#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_32v6K
- clrex
-#else
- strex r5, r4, [ip] @ Clear exclusive monitor
-#endif
-#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_HAS_TLS_REG)
mcr p15, 0, r3, c13, c0, 3 @ set TLS register
#elif !defined(CONFIG_TLS_REG_EMUL)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S
index a4eaf4f920c..e17e3c30d95 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S
@@ -76,13 +76,25 @@
#ifndef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
.macro svc_exit, rpsr
msr spsr_cxsf, \rpsr
+#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_32v6K)
+ clrex @ clear the exclusive monitor
ldmia sp, {r0 - pc}^ @ load r0 - pc, cpsr
+#elif defined (CONFIG_CPU_V6)
+ ldr r0, [sp]
+ strex r1, r2, [sp] @ clear the exclusive monitor
+ ldmib sp, {r1 - pc}^ @ load r1 - pc, cpsr
+#endif
.endm
.macro restore_user_regs, fast = 0, offset = 0
ldr r1, [sp, #\offset + S_PSR] @ get calling cpsr
ldr lr, [sp, #\offset + S_PC]! @ get pc
msr spsr_cxsf, r1 @ save in spsr_svc
+#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_32v6K)
+ clrex @ clear the exclusive monitor
+#elif defined (CONFIG_CPU_V6)
+ strex r1, r2, [sp] @ clear the exclusive monitor
+#endif
.if \fast
ldmdb sp, {r1 - lr}^ @ get calling r1 - lr
.else
@@ -98,6 +110,7 @@
.endm
#else /* CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL */
.macro svc_exit, rpsr
+ clrex @ clear the exclusive monitor
ldr r0, [sp, #S_SP] @ top of the stack
ldr r1, [sp, #S_PC] @ return address
tst r0, #4 @ orig stack 8-byte aligned?
@@ -110,6 +123,7 @@
.endm
.macro restore_user_regs, fast = 0, offset = 0
+ clrex @ clear the exclusive monitor
mov r2, sp
load_user_sp_lr r2, r3, \offset + S_SP @ calling sp, lr
ldr r1, [sp, #\offset + S_PSR] @ get calling cpsr