From 91e040a79df73d371f70792f30380d4e44805250 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vineet Gupta Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:39:45 -0700 Subject: ARC: syscall for userspace cmpxchg assist Older ARC700 cores (ARC750 specifically) lack instructions to implement atomic r-w-w. This is problematic for userspace libraries such as NPTL which need atomic primitives. So enable them by providing kernel assist. This is costly but really the only sane soluton (othern than tight spinning using the otherwise availiable atomic exchange EX instruciton). Good thing is there are only a few of these cores running Linux out in the wild. This only works on UP systems. Reviewed-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta --- arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h | 1 + arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 9 +++++---- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/arc/include') diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h index e56f9fcc5581..772b67ca56e7 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ int sys_clone_wrapper(int, int, int, int, int); int sys_cacheflush(uint32_t, uint32_t uint32_t); int sys_arc_settls(void *); int sys_arc_gettls(void); +int sys_arc_usr_cmpxchg(int *, int, int); #include diff --git a/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h index 41fa2ec9e02c..9a34136d84b2 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h @@ -27,18 +27,19 @@ #define NR_syscalls __NR_syscalls +/* Generic syscall (fs/filesystems.c - lost in asm-generic/unistd.h */ +#define __NR_sysfs (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 3) + /* ARC specific syscall */ #define __NR_cacheflush (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 0) #define __NR_arc_settls (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 1) #define __NR_arc_gettls (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 2) +#define __NR_arc_usr_cmpxchg (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 4) __SYSCALL(__NR_cacheflush, sys_cacheflush) __SYSCALL(__NR_arc_settls, sys_arc_settls) __SYSCALL(__NR_arc_gettls, sys_arc_gettls) - - -/* Generic syscall (fs/filesystems.c - lost in asm-generic/unistd.h */ -#define __NR_sysfs (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 3) +__SYSCALL(__NR_arc_usr_cmpxchg, sys_arc_usr_cmpxchg) __SYSCALL(__NR_sysfs, sys_sysfs) #undef __SYSCALL -- cgit v1.2.3