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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:38:51 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm: enable a_ll and a_sc helper functions
 when building for ARMv6T2

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 06:51:44PM -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> ARMv6 cores with support for Thumb2 can take advantage of the "ldrex"
> and "strex" based implementations of a_ll and a_sc.
> ---
>  arch/arm/atomic_arch.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/atomic_arch.h b/arch/arm/atomic_arch.h
> index 5ff1be1..62458b4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/atomic_arch.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/atomic_arch.h
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ extern uintptr_t __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden")))
>  	__a_cas_ptr, __a_barrier_ptr;
>  
>  #if ((__ARM_ARCH_6__ || __ARM_ARCH_6K__ || __ARM_ARCH_6KZ__ || __ARM_ARCH_6ZK__) && !__thumb__) \
> - || __ARM_ARCH_7A__ || __ARM_ARCH_7R__ ||  __ARM_ARCH >= 7
> + || __ARM_ARCH_6T2__ || __ARM_ARCH_7A__ || __ARM_ARCH_7R__ || __ARM_ARCH >= 7
>  
>  #define a_ll a_ll
>  static inline int a_ll(volatile int *p)

I'm merging this along with the others, but there is some concern that
our use of a_ll/a_sc might not actually be valid on most or all of the
archs we currently use it on. Depending on how this turns out it might
all be removed at some later time.

Rich

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