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-rw-r--r--lib/libpthread/arch/sparc/_atomic_lock.c31
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libpthread/arch/sparc/_atomic_lock.c b/lib/libpthread/arch/sparc/_atomic_lock.c
index 6415e25c912..c46a0ce6da8 100644
--- a/lib/libpthread/arch/sparc/_atomic_lock.c
+++ b/lib/libpthread/arch/sparc/_atomic_lock.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: _atomic_lock.c,v 1.4 1998/12/21 13:03:45 d Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: _atomic_lock.c,v 1.5 1999/02/07 23:51:00 d Exp $ */
/*
* Atomic lock for sparc
*/
@@ -8,12 +8,37 @@
int
_atomic_lock(volatile _spinlock_lock_t * lock)
{
- return _thread_slow_atomic_lock(lock);
+ _spinlock_lock_t old;
+
+ /*
+ * " ldstub [address], reg_rd
+ *
+ * The atomic load-store instructions copy a byte from memory
+ * into r[rd]m then rewrite the addressed byte in memory to all
+ * ones [_SPINLOCK_LOCKED]. The operation is performed
+ * atomically, that is, without allowing intervening interrupts
+ * or deferred traps. In a multiprocessor system, two or more
+ * processors executing atomic load-store unsigned byte [...]
+ * addressing the same byte [...] simultaneously are guaranteed
+ * to execute them in an undefined, but serial order."
+ * - p101, The SPARC Architecure Manual (version 8) Prentice-Hall
+ *
+ * "LDSTUB loads a byte value from memory to a register and writes
+ * the value FF_16 into the addressed byte atomically. LDSTUB
+ * is the classic test-and-set instruction. Like SWAP, it has
+ * a consensus number of two and so cannot resolve more than
+ * two contending processes in a wait-free fashion."
+ * - p129, The SPARC Architecture Manual (version 9) Prentice-Hall
+ * (See also section J.6 (spinlocks))
+ */
+ __asm__("ldstub %1,%0" : "=r" (old), "+m" (*lock));
+
+ return (old == _SPINLOCK_LOCKED);
}
int
_atomic_is_locked(volatile _spinlock_lock_t * lock)
{
- return _thread_slow_atomic_is_locked(lock);
+ return (*lock == _SPINLOCK_LOCKED);
}