tree 9d2965a2b9610413dea548a95e2f5094fc84b6e8
parent ace23683beb81354d6edbc61c087ab8c384d0631
author Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com> 1569416621 +0100
committer Olivier Deprez <olivier.deprez@arm.com> 1570177175 +0200

Fix the CAS spinlock implementation

Make the spinlock implementation use ARMv8.1-LSE CAS instruction based
on a platform build option. The CAS-based implementation used to be
unconditionally selected for all ARM8.1+ platforms.

The previous CAS spinlock implementation had a bug wherein the spin_unlock()
implementation had an `sev` after `stlr` which is not sufficient. A dsb is
needed to ensure that the stlr completes prior to the sev. Having a dsb is
heavyweight and a better solution would be to use load exclusive semantics
to monitor the lock and wake up from wfe when a store happens to the lock.
The patch implements the same.

Change-Id: I5283ce4a889376e4cc01d1b9d09afa8229a2e522
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Deprez <olivier.deprez@arm.com>