summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/libcutils
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorVinay HARUGOP <vinay.harugop@stericsson.com>2009-09-10 00:31:12 +0530
committerVinay HARUGOP <vinay.harugop@stericsson.com>2009-09-10 00:34:35 +0530
commit02608475edd7c42303c9c515aae270fb8b32032a (patch)
treef78b5601a52ccfc87f9b780f59f5ae470def6e82 /libcutils
parenta145741e1c2f3b5a347a5aebaa5853186b663471 (diff)
downloadsystem_core-02608475edd7c42303c9c515aae270fb8b32032a.zip
system_core-02608475edd7c42303c9c515aae270fb8b32032a.tar.gz
system_core-02608475edd7c42303c9c515aae270fb8b32032a.tar.bz2
ARM architecture reference manuals for ARMv6 & ARMv7 state that the use of 'swp' instruction is deprecated
ARMv6 onwards. These architectures provide the load-linked, store-conditional pair of ldrex/strex whose use is recommended in place of 'swp'. Also, the description of the 'swp' instruction in the ARMv6 reference manual states that the swap operation does not include any memory barrier guarantees.This fix attempts to address these issues by providing an atomic swap implementation using ldrex/strex under _ARM_HAVE_LDREX_STREX macro. _ARM_HAVE_LDREX_STREX macro is defined in cpu-features.h file and patch is submitted under change ID 11088. This Fix is verified on ST Ericsson's U8500 platform and Submitted on behalf of a third-party: Surinder-pal SINGH from STMicroelectronics.
Diffstat (limited to 'libcutils')
-rw-r--r--libcutils/atomic-android-arm.S16
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/libcutils/atomic-android-arm.S b/libcutils/atomic-android-arm.S
index c56ec5d..9a24976 100644
--- a/libcutils/atomic-android-arm.S
+++ b/libcutils/atomic-android-arm.S
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@
#include <machine/cpu-features.h>
/*
- * NOTE: these atomic operations are SMP safe on all architectures,
- * except swap(), see below.
+ * NOTE: these atomic operations are SMP safe on all architectures.
*/
.text
@@ -228,11 +227,18 @@ android_atomic_or:
* output: r0 = old value
*/
-/* FIXME: this is not safe on SMP systems
- * a general way to do it is to use kernel_cmpxchg */
-
+/* replaced swp instruction with ldrex/strex for ARMv6 & ARMv7 */
android_atomic_swap:
+#if defined (_ARM_HAVE_LDREX_STREX)
+1: ldrex r2, [r1]
+ strex r3, r0, [r1]
+ teq r3, #0
+ bne 1b
+ mov r0, r2
+ mcr p15, 0, r0, c7, c10, 5 /* or, use dmb */
+#else
swp r0, r0, [r1]
+#endif
bx lr
/*