/* POSIX spinlock implementation. Alpha version. Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #include <errno.h> #include <pthread.h> #include "internals.h" /* This implementation is similar to the one used in the Linux kernel. But the kernel is byte instructions for the memory access. This is faster but unusable here. The problem is that only 128 threads/processes could use the spinlock at the same time. If (by a design error in the program) a thread/process would hold the spinlock for a time long enough to accumulate 128 waiting processes, the next one will find a positive value in the spinlock and assume it is unlocked. We cannot accept that. */ int __pthread_spin_lock (pthread_spinlock_t *lock) { unsigned int tmp; __asm__ __volatile__ ("1: ldl_l %0,%1\n" " blbs %0,2f\n" " or %0,1,%0\n" " stl_c %0,%1\n" " beq %0,2f\n" " mb\n" ".subsection 2\n" "2: ldl %0,%1\n" " blbs %0,2b\n" " br 1b\n" ".previous" : "=r" (tmp), "=m" (lock) : "m" (lock)); return 0; } weak_alias (__pthread_spin_lock, pthread_spin_lock) int __pthread_spin_trylock (pthread_spinlock_t *lock) { unsigned long int oldval; unsigned long int temp; __asm__ __volatile__ ("1: ldl_l %0,%1\n" " and %0,%3,%2\n" " bne %2,2f\n" " xor %0,%3,%0\n" " stl_c %0,%1\n" " beq %0,3f\n" " mb\n" "2:\n" ".subsection 2\n" "3: br 1b\n" ".previous" : "=&r" (temp), "=m" (*lock), "=&r" (oldval) : "Ir" (1UL), "m" (*lock)); return oldval == 0 ? 0 : EBUSY; } weak_alias (__pthread_spin_trylock, pthread_spin_trylock) int __pthread_spin_unlock (pthread_spinlock_t *lock) { __asm__ __volatile__ ("mb"); return *lock = 0; } weak_alias (__pthread_spin_unlock, pthread_spin_unlock) int __pthread_spin_init (pthread_spinlock_t *lock, int pshared) { /* We can ignore the `pshared' parameter. Since we are busy-waiting all processes which can access the memory location `lock' points to can use the spinlock. */ *lock = 0; return 0; } weak_alias (__pthread_spin_init, pthread_spin_init) int __pthread_spin_destroy (pthread_spinlock_t *lock) { /* Nothing to do. */ return 0; } weak_alias (__pthread_spin_destroy, pthread_spin_destroy)