arch/arm/common/vlock.S
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/arch/arm/common/vlock.S
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
arch/arm/common/vlock.S- Extension
.S- Size
- 2281 bytes
- Lines
- 102
- Domain
- Architecture Layer
- Bucket
- arch/arm
- Inferred role
- Architecture Layer: arch/arm
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.
- CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.
Dependency Surface
linux/linkage.hvlock.h
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include "vlock.h"
.arch armv7-a
/* Select different code if voting flags can fit in a single word. */
#if VLOCK_VOTING_SIZE > 4
#define FEW(x...)
#define MANY(x...) x
#else
#define FEW(x...) x
#define MANY(x...)
#endif
@ voting lock for first-man coordination
.macro voting_begin rbase:req, rcpu:req, rscratch:req
mov \rscratch, #1
strb \rscratch, [\rbase, \rcpu]
dmb
.endm
.macro voting_end rbase:req, rcpu:req, rscratch:req
dmb
mov \rscratch, #0
strb \rscratch, [\rbase, \rcpu]
dsb st
sev
.endm
/*
* The vlock structure must reside in Strongly-Ordered or Device memory.
* This implementation deliberately eliminates most of the barriers which
* would be required for other memory types, and assumes that independent
* writes to neighbouring locations within a cacheline do not interfere
* with one another.
*/
@ r0: lock structure base
@ r1: CPU ID (0-based index within cluster)
ENTRY(vlock_trylock)
add r1, r1, #VLOCK_VOTING_OFFSET
voting_begin r0, r1, r2
ldrb r2, [r0, #VLOCK_OWNER_OFFSET] @ check whether lock is held
cmp r2, #VLOCK_OWNER_NONE
bne trylock_fail @ fail if so
@ Control dependency implies strb not observable before previous ldrb.
strb r1, [r0, #VLOCK_OWNER_OFFSET] @ submit my vote
voting_end r0, r1, r2 @ implies DMB
@ Wait for the current round of voting to finish:
MANY( mov r3, #VLOCK_VOTING_OFFSET )
0:
MANY( ldr r2, [r0, r3] )
FEW( ldr r2, [r0, #VLOCK_VOTING_OFFSET] )
cmp r2, #0
wfene
bne 0b
MANY( add r3, r3, #4 )
MANY( cmp r3, #VLOCK_VOTING_OFFSET + VLOCK_VOTING_SIZE )
MANY( bne 0b )
@ Check who won:
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/linkage.h`, `vlock.h`.
- Atlas domain: Architecture Layer / arch/arm.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.