locking/barriers, arch/arm64: Implement LDXR+WFE based smp_cond_load_acquire()
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:43:54 +0000 (18:43 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 7 Jul 2016 07:10:53 +0000 (09:10 +0200)
commit03e3c2b7edbe1e8758196b2c7843333eb328063d
treef894288a88daa7d20fc00be4f294a1344ae2601e
parent885885f6b88d22f81e67ee6a61561e480b27d27a
locking/barriers, arch/arm64: Implement LDXR+WFE based smp_cond_load_acquire()

smp_cond_load_acquire() is used to spin on a variable until some
expression involving that variable becomes true.

On arm64, we can build this using the LDXR and WFE instructions, since
clearing of the exclusive monitor as a result of the variable being
changed by another CPU generates an event, which will wake us up out of WFE.

This patch implements smp_cond_load_acquire() using LDXR and WFE, which
themselves are contained in an internal __cmpwait() function.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467049434-30451-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h