[PATCH V2] ARM: SWP emulation: Restore original *data when failed

Shengjiu Wang shengjiu.wang at freescale.com
Thu Oct 15 02:30:11 PDT 2015


__user_swpX_asm maybe failed in first STREX operation, emulate_swpX
will try again, but the *data has been changed in first time. which
causes the result is wrong.
This patch is to fix this issue. When STREX succeed, change the *data.
if it fail, *data is not changed.

Signed-off-by: Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang at freescale.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/swp_emulate.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/swp_emulate.c b/arch/arm/kernel/swp_emulate.c
index 5b26e7e..c3fe769d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/swp_emulate.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/swp_emulate.c
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@
  */
 #define __user_swpX_asm(data, addr, res, temp, B)		\
 	__asm__ __volatile__(					\
-	"	mov		%2, %1\n"			\
-	"0:	ldrex"B"	%1, [%3]\n"			\
-	"1:	strex"B"	%0, %2, [%3]\n"			\
+	"0:	ldrex"B"	%2, [%3]\n"			\
+	"1:	strex"B"	%0, %1, [%3]\n"			\
 	"	cmp		%0, #0\n"			\
+	"	moveq		%1, %2\n"			\
 	"	movne		%0, %4\n"			\
 	"2:\n"							\
 	"	.section	 .text.fixup,\"ax\"\n"		\
-- 
1.9.1




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