/* pthread_spin_lock -- lock a spin lock. Generic version. Copyright (C) 2012-2018 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 . */ #include #include "pthreadP.h" int pthread_spin_lock (pthread_spinlock_t *lock) { int val = 0; /* We assume that the first try mostly will be successful, thus we use atomic_exchange if it is not implemented by a CAS loop (we also assume that atomic_exchange can be faster if it succeeds, see ATOMIC_EXCHANGE_USES_CAS). Otherwise, we use a weak CAS and not an exchange so we bail out after the first failed attempt to change the state. For the subsequent attempts we use atomic_compare_and_exchange after we observe that the lock is not acquired. See also comment in pthread_spin_trylock. We use acquire MO to synchronize-with the release MO store in pthread_spin_unlock, and thus ensure that prior critical sections happen-before this critical section. */ #if ! ATOMIC_EXCHANGE_USES_CAS /* Try to acquire the lock with an exchange instruction as this architecture has such an instruction and we assume it is faster than a CAS. The acquisition succeeds if the lock is not in an acquired state. */ if (__glibc_likely (atomic_exchange_acquire (lock, 1) == 0)) return 0; #else /* Try to acquire the lock with a CAS instruction as this architecture has no exchange instruction. The acquisition succeeds if the lock is not acquired. */ if (__glibc_likely (atomic_compare_exchange_weak_acquire (lock, &val, 1))) return 0; #endif 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. There is no technical reason for throwing in a CAS every now and then, and so far we have no evidence that it can improve performance. If that would be the case, we have to adjust other spin-waiting loops elsewhere, too! Thus we use relaxed MO reads until we observe the lock to not be acquired anymore. */ do { /* TODO Back-off. */ atomic_spin_nop (); val = atomic_load_relaxed (lock); } while (val != 0); /* We need acquire memory order here for the same reason as mentioned for the first try to lock the spinlock. */ } while (!atomic_compare_exchange_weak_acquire (lock, &val, 1)); return 0; }