[RFC] arm: Add for atomic half word exchange

From: Sarbojit Ganguly
Date: Tue May 19 2015 - 05:39:39 EST


Since 16 bit half word exchange was not there and MCS based qspinlock by Waiman's xchg_tail() requires an atomic exchange on a half word,
here is a small modification to __xchg() code.

--- /linux.trees.git/tip/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h 2015-05-11 23:36:06.942583615 +0530
+++ arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h 2015-04-08 18:40:43.276255712 +0530
@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@
#define __ASM_ARM_CMPXCHG_H

#include <linux/irqflags.h>
#include <asm/barrier.h>

#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_SA1100) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_SA110)
/*
* On the StrongARM, "swp" is terminally broken since it bypasses the
@@ -36,7 +39,6 @@
#endif

smp_mb();

switch (size) {
#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
@@ -50,6 +52,23 @@
: "r" (x), "r" (ptr)
: "memory", "cc");
break;
+ /*
+ * halfword exclusive exchange
+ * This is new implementation as qspinlock
+ * wants 16 bit atomic CAS.
+ */
+ case 2:
+ asm volatile("@ __xchg2\n"
+ "1: ldrexh %0, [%3]\n"
+ " strexh %1, %2, [%3]\n"
+ " teq %1, #0\n"
+ " bne 1b"
+ : "=&r" (ret), "=&r" (tmp)
+ : "r" (x), "r" (ptr)
+ : "memory", "cc");
+ break;
case 4:
asm volatile("@ __xchg4\n"
"1: ldrex %0, [%3]\n"
@@ -94,6 +113,10 @@
break;
#endif
default:
__bad_xchg(ptr, size), ret = 0;
break;
}


Regards,
Sarbojit