Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260217200002.683975158@linuxfoundation.org Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com> Tested-by: Takeshi Ogasawara <takeshi.ogasawara@futuring-girl.com> Tested-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com> Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield <bacs@librecast.net> Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Tested-by: Luna Jernberg <droidbittin@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ronald Warsow <rwarsow@gmx.de> Tested-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org> Tested-by: Ron Economos <re@w6rz.net> Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Software emulation of deprecated SWP instruction (CONFIG_SWP_EMULATE)
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ARMv6 architecture deprecates use of the SWP/SWPB instructions, and recommends
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moving to the load-locked/store-conditional instructions LDREX and STREX.
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ARMv7 multiprocessing extensions introduce the ability to disable these
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instructions, triggering an undefined instruction exception when executed.
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Trapped instructions are emulated using an LDREX/STREX or LDREXB/STREXB
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sequence. If a memory access fault (an abort) occurs, a segmentation fault is
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signalled to the triggering process.
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/proc/cpu/swp_emulation holds some statistics/information, including the PID of
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the last process to trigger the emulation to be invocated. For example::
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Emulated SWP: 12
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Emulated SWPB: 0
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Aborted SWP{B}: 1
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Last process: 314
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NOTE:
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when accessing uncached shared regions, LDREX/STREX rely on an external
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transaction monitoring block called a global monitor to maintain update
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atomicity. If your system does not implement a global monitor, this option can
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cause programs that perform SWP operations to uncached memory to deadlock, as
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the STREX operation will always fail.
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