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Nicolas Pitre authored
The ARM __kuser_cmpxchg routine is meant to implement an atomic cmpxchg in user space. It however can produce spurious false negative if a processor exception occurs in the middle of the operation. Normally this is not a problem since cmpxchg is typically called in a loop until it succeeds to implement an atomic increment for example. Some use cases which don't involve a loop require that the operation be 100% reliable though. This patch changes the implementation so to reattempt the operation after an exception has occurred in the critical section rather than abort it. Here's a simple program to test the fix (don't use CONFIG_NO_HZ in your kernel as this depends on a sufficiently high interrupt rate): #include <stdio.h> typedef int (__kernel_cmpxchg_t)(int oldval, int newval, int *ptr); #define __kernel_cmpxchg (*(__kernel_cmpxchg_t *)0xffff0fc0) int main() { int i, x = 0; for (i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) { int v = x; if (__kernel_cmpxchg(v, v+1, &x)) printf("failed at %d: %d vs %d\n", i, v, x); } printf("done with %d vs %d\n", i, x); return 0; } Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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