ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:15:40 +0000 (19:15 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Oct 2012 17:40:03 +0000 (10:40 -0700)
commitb3109b3c87de5f6d98d8418c5f1931d9d2609ae0
tree925b4840f5246802dd1a38e2a4cd1b9f0d62e72a
parent56015aefc7a036e7a6156a2b5b3eb6e975354e86
ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+

commit a76d7bd96d65fa5119adba97e1b58d95f2e78829 upstream.

The open-coded mutex implementation for ARMv6+ cores suffers from a
severe lack of barriers, so in the uncontended case we don't actually
protect any accesses performed during the critical section.

Furthermore, the code is largely a duplication of the ARMv6+ atomic_dec
code but optimised to remove a branch instruction, as the mutex fastpath
was previously inlined. Now that this is executed out-of-line, we can
reuse the atomic access code for the locking (in fact, we use the xchg
code as this produces shorter critical sections).

This patch uses the generic xchg based implementation for mutexes on
ARMv6+, which introduces barriers to the lock/unlock operations and also
has the benefit of removing a fair amount of inline assembly code.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Shan Kang <kangshan0910@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h