Re: [PATCH v3] arm: remove !CPU_V6 and !GENERIC_ATOMIC64 builddependencies for XEN

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Tue Jan 21 2014 - 07:09:24 EST


On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 03:32:48PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > For the xchg part, yes, that looks a lot better. I don't like the #undef
> > > CONFIG_CPU_V6 though, can that be rewritten to use __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__?
> >
> > The problem is that the 1 and 2 byte parameter size cases in __cmpxchg
> > are ifdef'ed CONFIG_CPU_V6 but drivers/xen/grant-table.c needs them.
> >
> > So we can either undef CONFIG_CPU_V6 in grant-table.c or call a
> > different function.
> >
> > If I switch from ifdef CONFIG_CPU_V6 to if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ > 6 in
> > __cmpxchg, we still have the problem that if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ == 6,
> > grant-table.c doesn't compile.
> >
> > Maybe the approach taken by the other patch for cmpxchg is better, see
> > below.
>
> Yes, I prefer this approach. Minor comment below.
>
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > index c1f1a7e..ae54ae0 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > @@ -1881,8 +1881,7 @@ config XEN_DOM0
> > config XEN
> > bool "Xen guest support on ARM (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> > depends on ARM && AEABI && OF
> > - depends on CPU_V7 && !CPU_V6
> > - depends on !GENERIC_ATOMIC64
> > + depends on CPU_V7
> > select ARM_PSCI
> > select SWIOTLB_XEN
> > help
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> > index df2fbba..cc8a4a2 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> > @@ -133,6 +133,44 @@ extern void __bad_cmpxchg(volatile void *ptr, int size);
> > * cmpxchg only support 32-bits operands on ARMv6.
> > */
> >
> > +static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg8(volatile void *ptr, unsigned long old,
> > + unsigned long new)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long oldval, res;
> > +
> > + do {
> > + asm volatile("@ __cmpxchg1\n"
> > + " ldrexb %1, [%2]\n"
> > + " mov %0, #0\n"
> > + " teq %1, %3\n"
> > + " strexbeq %0, %4, [%2]\n"
> > + : "=&r" (res), "=&r" (oldval)
> > + : "r" (ptr), "Ir" (old), "r" (new)
> > + : "memory", "cc");
> > + } while (res);
> > +
> > + return oldval;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg16(volatile void *ptr, unsigned long old,
> > + unsigned long new)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long oldval, res;
> > +
> > + do {
> > + asm volatile("@ __cmpxchg1\n"
>
> Can you fix this comment while you're here please?

OK, I'll use @ __cmpxchg16 and @ __cmpxchg8.
I'll resend as a separate patch.
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