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authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2016-05-16 10:35:25 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2016-06-13 08:36:34 -0300
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Remove __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI
This patch removes __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI usage and assumes that
kernel will correctly return if it supports or not
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic.

Current PI mutex code already has runtime support by calling
prio_inherit_missing and returns ENOTSUP if the futex operation fails
at initialization (it issues a FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI futex operation).

Also, current minimum supported kernel (v3.2) will return ENOSYS if
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic is not supported in the system:

kernel/futex.c:

2628 long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout,
2629                 u32 __user *uaddr2, u32 val2, u32 val3)
2630 {
2631         int ret = -ENOSYS, cmd = op & FUTEX_CMD_MASK;
[...]
2667         case FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI:
2668                 if (futex_cmpxchg_enabled)
2669                         ret = futex_unlock_pi(uaddr, flags);
[...]
2686         return ret;
2687 }

The futex_cmpxchg_enabled is initialized by calling cmpxchg_futex_value_locked,
which calls futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic.

For ARM futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic will be either defined (if both
CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS and CONFIG_SMP are not defined) or use the
default generic implementation that returns ENOSYS.

For m68k is uses the default generic implementation.

For mips futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic will return ENOSYS if cpu has no
'cpu_has_llsc' support (defined by each chip supporte inside kernel).

For sparc, 32-bit kernel will just use default generic implementation,
while 64-bit kernel has support.

Tested on ARM (v3.8 kernel) and x86_64.

	* nptl/pthread_mutex_init.c [__ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI]
	(prio_inherit_missing): Remove define.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/kernel-features.h
	(__ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h (__ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI):
	Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/kernel-features.h
	(__ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/kernel-features.h
	(__ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/kernel-features.h
	(__ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI): Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h
index 02c530b9e6..1d3b554f81 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h
@@ -64,10 +64,6 @@
    configurations).  */
 #define __ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST	1
 
-/* Support for PI futexes was added in 2.6.18 (but some architectures
-   lack futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic in some configurations).  */
-#define __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI	1
-
 /* Support for private futexes was added in 2.6.22.  */
 #define __ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX	1