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Clear the exclusive monitor when returning from an exception

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The patch adds a CLREX or dummy STREX to the exception return path. This
is needed because several atomic/locking operations use a pair of
LDREX/STREXEQ and the EQ condition may not always be satisfied. This
would leave the exclusive monitor status set and may cause problems with
atomic/locking operations in the interrupted code.

With this patch, the atomic_set() operation can be a simple STR
instruction (on SMP systems, the global exclusive monitor is cleared by
STR anyway). Clearing the exclusive monitor during context switch is no
longer needed as this is handled by the exception return path anyway.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Catalin Marinas
2009-09-18 23:27:05 +01:00
parent df58bee21e
commit 200b812d00
3 changed files with 21 additions and 26 deletions
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arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
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@@ -734,13 +734,6 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to)
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
ldr r6, [r2, #TI_CPU_DOMAIN]
#endif
#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_32v6K
clrex
#else
strex r5, r4, [ip] @ Clear exclusive monitor
#endif
#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_HAS_TLS_REG)
mcr p15, 0, r3, c13, c0, 3 @ set TLS register
#elif !defined(CONFIG_TLS_REG_EMUL)

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arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S
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@@ -76,13 +76,25 @@
#ifndef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
.macro svc_exit, rpsr
msr spsr_cxsf, \rpsr
#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_32v6K)
clrex @ clear the exclusive monitor
ldmia sp, {r0 - pc}^ @ load r0 - pc, cpsr
#elif defined (CONFIG_CPU_V6)
ldr r0, [sp]
strex r1, r2, [sp] @ clear the exclusive monitor
ldmib sp, {r1 - pc}^ @ load r1 - pc, cpsr
#endif
.endm
.macro restore_user_regs, fast = 0, offset = 0
ldr r1, [sp, #\offset + S_PSR] @ get calling cpsr
ldr lr, [sp, #\offset + S_PC]! @ get pc
msr spsr_cxsf, r1 @ save in spsr_svc
#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_32v6K)
clrex @ clear the exclusive monitor
#elif defined (CONFIG_CPU_V6)
strex r1, r2, [sp] @ clear the exclusive monitor
#endif
.if \fast
ldmdb sp, {r1 - lr}^ @ get calling r1 - lr
.else
@@ -98,6 +110,7 @@
.endm
#else /* CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL */
.macro svc_exit, rpsr
clrex @ clear the exclusive monitor
ldr r0, [sp, #S_SP] @ top of the stack
ldr r1, [sp, #S_PC] @ return address
tst r0, #4 @ orig stack 8-byte aligned?
@@ -110,6 +123,7 @@
.endm
.macro restore_user_regs, fast = 0, offset = 0
clrex @ clear the exclusive monitor
mov r2, sp
load_user_sp_lr r2, r3, \offset + S_SP @ calling sp, lr
ldr r1, [sp, #\offset + S_PSR] @ get calling cpsr