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Catalin Marinas authored
The patch adds CLREX (or a dummy STREX) to the vector stub and removes it from the __switch_to function. This allows the atomic_set to be a simple STR instruction. Linux currently clears the exclusive monitor at every context switch, allowing threads to use plain STR for atomic store operations. However, this is not enough for atomic operations in signal handler. The patch fixes this case as well. Note that for the SMP case, plain STR clears the state of the global exclusive monitor. The effect of an STR on the local exclusive monitor is implementation defined and therefore a CLREX is needed at exception taking. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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