bitops: introduce lock ops
authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:06:39 +0000 (03:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:37:29 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
Introduce test_and_set_bit_lock / clear_bit_unlock bitops with lock semantics.
Convert all architectures to use the generic implementation.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
27 files changed:
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
include/asm-alpha/bitops.h
include/asm-arm/bitops.h
include/asm-avr32/bitops.h
include/asm-blackfin/bitops.h
include/asm-cris/bitops.h
include/asm-frv/bitops.h
include/asm-generic/bitops.h
include/asm-generic/bitops/lock.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/asm-h8300/bitops.h
include/asm-ia64/bitops.h
include/asm-m32r/bitops.h
include/asm-m68k/bitops.h
include/asm-m68knommu/bitops.h
include/asm-mips/bitops.h
include/asm-parisc/bitops.h
include/asm-powerpc/bitops.h
include/asm-s390/bitops.h
include/asm-sh/bitops.h
include/asm-sh64/bitops.h
include/asm-sparc/bitops.h
include/asm-sparc64/bitops.h
include/asm-v850/bitops.h
include/asm-x86/bitops_32.h
include/asm-x86/bitops_64.h
include/asm-xtensa/bitops.h

index d46306f..f20c10c 100644 (file)
@@ -418,6 +418,20 @@ brothers:
         */
         smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
 
+There are two special bitops with lock barrier semantics (acquire/release,
+same as spinlocks). These operate in the same way as their non-_lock/unlock
+postfixed variants, except that they are to provide acquire/release semantics,
+respectively. This means they can be used for bit_spin_trylock and
+bit_spin_unlock type operations without specifying any more barriers.
+
+       int test_and_set_bit_lock(unsigned long nr, unsigned long *addr);
+       void clear_bit_unlock(unsigned long nr, unsigned long *addr);
+       void __clear_bit_unlock(unsigned long nr, unsigned long *addr);
+
+The __clear_bit_unlock version is non-atomic, however it still implements
+unlock barrier semantics. This can be useful if the lock itself is protecting
+the other bits in the word.
+
 Finally, there are non-atomic versions of the bitmask operations
 provided.  They are used in contexts where some other higher-level SMP
 locking scheme is being used to protect the bitmask, and thus less
index 650657c..4e17beb 100644 (file)
@@ -1479,7 +1479,8 @@ kernel.
 
 Any atomic operation that modifies some state in memory and returns information
 about the state (old or new) implies an SMP-conditional general memory barrier
-(smp_mb()) on each side of the actual operation.  These include:
+(smp_mb()) on each side of the actual operation (with the exception of
+explicit lock operations, described later).  These include:
 
        xchg();
        cmpxchg();
@@ -1536,10 +1537,19 @@ If they're used for constructing a lock of some description, then they probably
 do need memory barriers as a lock primitive generally has to do things in a
 specific order.
 
-
 Basically, each usage case has to be carefully considered as to whether memory
 barriers are needed or not.
 
+The following operations are special locking primitives:
+
+       test_and_set_bit_lock();
+       clear_bit_unlock();
+       __clear_bit_unlock();
+
+These implement LOCK-class and UNLOCK-class operations. These should be used in
+preference to other operations when implementing locking primitives, because
+their implementations can be optimised on many architectures.
+
 [!] Note that special memory barrier primitives are available for these
 situations because on some CPUs the atomic instructions used imply full memory
 barriers, and so barrier instructions are superfluous in conjunction with them,
index 9e71201..ca667d1 100644 (file)
@@ -367,6 +367,7 @@ static inline unsigned int hweight8(unsigned int w)
 #else
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
 #endif
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
index b41831b..52fe058 100644 (file)
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ static inline int constant_fls(int x)
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 /*
  * Ext2 is defined to use little-endian byte ordering.
index 5299f8c..f3faddf 100644 (file)
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ static inline int ffs(unsigned long word)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-atomic.h>
index 27c2d0e..03ecedc 100644 (file)
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ static __inline__ int __test_bit(int nr, const void *addr)
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-atomic.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
index a569065..617151b 100644 (file)
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static inline int test_and_change_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
 
index f8560ed..8dba74b 100644 (file)
@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ int __ilog2_u64(u64 n)
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
 
index 1f9d991..e022a0f 100644 (file)
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ffs.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-atomic.h>
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bitops/lock.h b/include/asm-generic/bitops/lock.h
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..308a9e2
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_LOCK_H_
+#define _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_LOCK_H_
+
+/**
+ * test_and_set_bit_lock - Set a bit and return its old value, for lock
+ * @nr: Bit to set
+ * @addr: Address to count from
+ *
+ * This operation is atomic and provides acquire barrier semantics.
+ * It can be used to implement bit locks.
+ */
+#define test_and_set_bit_lock(nr, addr)        test_and_set_bit(nr, addr)
+
+/**
+ * clear_bit_unlock - Clear a bit in memory, for unlock
+ * @nr: the bit to set
+ * @addr: the address to start counting from
+ *
+ * This operation is atomic and provides release barrier semantics.
+ */
+#define clear_bit_unlock(nr, addr)     \
+do {                                   \
+       smp_mb__before_clear_bit();     \
+       clear_bit(nr, addr);            \
+} while (0)
+
+/**
+ * __clear_bit_unlock - Clear a bit in memory, for unlock
+ * @nr: the bit to set
+ * @addr: the address to start counting from
+ *
+ * This operation is like clear_bit_unlock, however it is not atomic.
+ * It does provide release barrier semantics so it can be used to unlock
+ * a bit lock, however it would only be used if no other CPU can modify
+ * any bits in the memory until the lock is released (a good example is
+ * if the bit lock itself protects access to the other bits in the word).
+ */
+#define __clear_bit_unlock(nr, addr)   \
+do {                                   \
+       smp_mb();                       \
+       __clear_bit(nr, addr);          \
+} while (0)
+
+#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_LOCK_H_ */
+
index d76299c..e64ad31 100644 (file)
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ static __inline__ unsigned long __ffs(unsigned long word)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-atomic.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/minix.h>
index 6cc517e..569dd62 100644 (file)
@@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ hweight64 (unsigned long x)
 #define hweight16(x)   (unsigned int) hweight64((x) & 0xfffful)
 #define hweight8(x)    (unsigned int) hweight64((x) & 0xfful)
 
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
index 66ab672..313a02c 100644 (file)
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ static __inline__ int test_and_change_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ffs.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
index 1a61fdb..da151f7 100644 (file)
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ static inline int fls(int x)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 /* Bitmap functions for the minix filesystem */
 
index 7d6075d..b8b2770 100644 (file)
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ static __inline__ int __test_bit(int nr, const volatile unsigned long * addr)
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 static __inline__ int ext2_set_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr)
 {
index 899357a..0d3373f 100644 (file)
@@ -556,6 +556,7 @@ static inline int ffs(int word)
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-atomic.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/minix.h>
index 015cb0d..03ae287 100644 (file)
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ static __inline__ int fls(int x)
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
index 8144a27..1d4c166 100644 (file)
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ static __inline__ int fls(unsigned int x)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h>
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #define find_first_zero_bit(addr, size) find_next_zero_bit((addr), (size), 0)
 unsigned long find_next_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr,
index f79c9b7..d756b34 100644 (file)
@@ -746,6 +746,7 @@ static inline int sched_find_first_bit(unsigned long *b)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h>
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 /*
  * ATTENTION: intel byte ordering convention for ext2 and minix !!
index 1c16792..9d70217 100644 (file)
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __ffs(unsigned long word)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ffs.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-atomic.h>
index f3bdcdb..444d5ea 100644 (file)
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ static __inline__ unsigned long ffz(unsigned long word)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/__ffs.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ffs.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
index 329e696..00bd0a6 100644 (file)
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ static inline void change_bit(unsigned long nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/fls.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-atomic.h>
index 3d5e1af..dd4bfe9 100644 (file)
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static inline unsigned int hweight8(unsigned int w)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
 
 #endif
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
index 1fa99ba..8eafdb1 100644 (file)
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ static inline int __test_bit (int nr, const void *addr)
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/find.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h>
 #define ext2_set_bit_atomic(l,n,a)      test_and_set_bit(n,a)
index a20fe98..c96641f 100644 (file)
@@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ static inline int fls(int x)
 }
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
index 1d7d9b4..525edf2 100644 (file)
@@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ static __inline__ int fls(int x)
 #define ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER 1
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
index 1c1e0d9..78db04c 100644 (file)
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ static inline int fls (unsigned int x)
 #endif
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bitops/lock.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/minix.h>