arm64: spinlock: retry trylock operation if strex fails on free lock
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 31 May 2013 15:30:58 +0000 (16:30 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Jan 2014 20:24:20 +0000 (12:24 -0800)
commit42b5bb47a62b7b2d8cd0b9af58f914c5e83ef76e
tree1a57e454dce9bd9243dcbe832b94258e6abd3fa1
parent11b81802921618b02122855db021a63df7d9fd49
arm64: spinlock: retry trylock operation if strex fails on free lock

commit 4ecf7ccb1973fd826456b6ab1e6dfafe9023c753 upstream.

An exclusive store instruction may fail for reasons other than lock
contention (e.g. a cache eviction during the critical section) so, in
line with other architectures using similar exclusive instructions
(alpha, mips, powerpc), retry the trylock operation if the lock appears
to be free but the strex reported failure.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Tony Thompson <anthony.thompson@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h