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/* pthread_spin_lock -- lock a spin lock. Generic version.
Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include <atomic.h>
#include "pthreadP.h"
/* A machine-specific version can define SPIN_LOCK_READS_BETWEEN_CMPXCHG
to the number of plain reads that it's optimal to spin on between uses
of atomic_compare_and_exchange_val_acq. If spinning forever is optimal
then use -1. If no plain reads here would ever be optimal, use 0. */
#ifndef SPIN_LOCK_READS_BETWEEN_CMPXCHG
# warning machine-dependent file should define SPIN_LOCK_READS_BETWEEN_CMPXCHG
# define SPIN_LOCK_READS_BETWEEN_CMPXCHG 1000
#endif
int
pthread_spin_lock (pthread_spinlock_t *lock)
{
/* atomic_exchange usually takes less instructions than
atomic_compare_and_exchange. On the other hand,
atomic_compare_and_exchange potentially generates less bus traffic
when the lock is locked.
We assume that the first try mostly will be successful, and we use
atomic_exchange. For the subsequent tries we use
atomic_compare_and_exchange. */
if (atomic_exchange_acq (lock, 1) == 0)
return 0;
do
{
/* The lock is contended and we need to wait. Going straight back
to cmpxchg is not a good idea on many targets as that will force
expensive memory synchronizations among processors and penalize other
running threads.
On the other hand, we do want to update memory state on the local core
once in a while to avoid spinning indefinitely until some event that
will happen to update local memory as a side-effect. */
if (SPIN_LOCK_READS_BETWEEN_CMPXCHG >= 0)
{
int wait = SPIN_LOCK_READS_BETWEEN_CMPXCHG;
while (*lock != 0 && wait > 0)
--wait;
}
else
{
while (*lock != 0)
;
}
}
while (atomic_compare_and_exchange_val_acq (lock, 1, 0) != 0);
return 0;
}