ARC: syscall for userspace cmpxchg assist

Older ARC700 cores (ARC750 specifically) lack instructions to implement
atomic r-w-w. This is problematic for userspace libraries such as NPTL
which need atomic primitives. So enable them by providing kernel assist.
This is costly but really the only sane soluton (othern than tight
spinning using the otherwise availiable atomic exchange EX instruciton).

Good thing is there are only a few of these cores running Linux out in
the wild.

This only works on UP systems.

Reviewed-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>

3 files changed, 39 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h
index e56f9fc..772b67c 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/syscalls.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ int sys_clone_wrapper(int, int, int, int, int);
 int sys_cacheflush(uint32_t, uint32_t uint32_t);
 int sys_arc_settls(void *);
 int sys_arc_gettls(void);
+int sys_arc_usr_cmpxchg(int *, int, int);
 
 #include <asm-generic/syscalls.h>
 
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
index 41fa2ec..9a34136 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
@@ -27,18 +27,19 @@
 
 #define NR_syscalls	__NR_syscalls
 
+/* Generic syscall (fs/filesystems.c - lost in asm-generic/unistd.h */
+#define __NR_sysfs		(__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 3)
+
 /* ARC specific syscall */
 #define __NR_cacheflush		(__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 0)
 #define __NR_arc_settls		(__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 1)
 #define __NR_arc_gettls		(__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 2)
+#define __NR_arc_usr_cmpxchg	(__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 4)
 
 __SYSCALL(__NR_cacheflush, sys_cacheflush)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_arc_settls, sys_arc_settls)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_arc_gettls, sys_arc_gettls)
-
-
-/* Generic syscall (fs/filesystems.c - lost in asm-generic/unistd.h */
-#define __NR_sysfs		(__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 3)
+__SYSCALL(__NR_arc_usr_cmpxchg, sys_arc_usr_cmpxchg)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_sysfs, sys_sysfs)
 
 #undef __SYSCALL
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/process.c b/arch/arc/kernel/process.c
index be1972b..59aa43c 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/process.c
@@ -41,6 +41,39 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(arc_gettls)
 	return task_thread_info(current)->thr_ptr;
 }
 
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(arc_usr_cmpxchg, int *, uaddr, int, expected, int, new)
+{
+	int uval;
+	int ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * This is only for old cores lacking LLOCK/SCOND, which by defintion
+	 * can't possibly be SMP. Thus doesn't need to be SMP safe.
+	 * And this also helps reduce the overhead for serializing in
+	 * the UP case
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP));
+
+	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(int)))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	preempt_disable();
+
+	ret = __get_user(uval, uaddr);
+	if (ret)
+		goto done;
+
+	if (uval != expected)
+		ret = -EAGAIN;
+	else
+		ret = __put_user(new, uaddr);
+
+done:
+	preempt_enable();
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 void arch_cpu_idle(void)
 {
 	/* sleep, but enable all interrupts before committing */