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[PATCH] Remove arm lowlevellock.c


lowlevellock.c for arm differs from the generic lowlevellock.c only in
insignificant ways, so can be removed. Happily, this fixes BZ 15119
(unnecessary busy loop in __lll_timedlock_wait on arm).

The notable differences between the arm and generic implementations are:

1) arm __lll_timedlock_wait has a fast path out if futex has been set
to 0 between since the function was called. This seems unlikely to
happen very often, so it seems at worst harmless to lose this fast
path.

2) Some function in arm's lowlevellock.c set futex to 2 if it was 1.
The generic version always sets the futex to 2. As futex can only be
0, 1 or 2 on entry into these functions, the behaviour is equivalent.
(If the futex manages to be 0 on entry then we've just lost another
unlikely fast path out.)

There are no test suite regressions.

Note that hppa and sparc also have their own lowlevellock.c. I believe
hppa can also be removed, so I'll send a separate patch for that
shortly. sparc's seems to be genuinely needed as it uses a different
locking structure.

Also note that the analysis at
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2013-02/msg00021.html indicates a
further locking performance bug to fix - I've got a partial patch for
that which I can submit once I've finished testing.

2014-04-24  Bernard Ogden <bernie.ogden@linaro.org>

[BZ #15119]
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/nptl/lowlevellock.c: Remove file.


diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/nptl/lowlevellock.c
b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/nptl/lowlevellock.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 9603d7b..0000000
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/nptl/lowlevellock.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,132 +0,0 @@
-/* low level locking for pthread library.  Generic futex-using version.
-   Copyright (C) 2003-2014 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
-   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
-
-#include <errno.h>
-#include <sysdep.h>
-#include <lowlevellock.h>
-#include <sys/time.h>
-
-void
-__lll_lock_wait_private (int *futex)
-{
-  do
-    {
-      int oldval = atomic_compare_and_exchange_val_acq (futex, 2, 1);
-      if (oldval != 0)
- lll_futex_wait (futex, 2, LLL_PRIVATE);
-    }
-  while (atomic_compare_and_exchange_bool_acq (futex, 2, 0) != 0);
-}
-
-
-/* These functions don't get included in libc.so  */
-#ifdef IS_IN_libpthread
-void
-__lll_lock_wait (int *futex, int private)
-{
-  do
-    {
-      int oldval = atomic_compare_and_exchange_val_acq (futex, 2, 1);
-      if (oldval != 0)
- lll_futex_wait (futex, 2, private);
-    }
-  while (atomic_compare_and_exchange_bool_acq (futex, 2, 0) != 0);
-}
-
-
-int
-__lll_timedlock_wait (int *futex, const struct timespec *abstime, int private)
-{
-  struct timespec rt;
-
-  /* Reject invalid timeouts.  */
-  if (abstime->tv_nsec < 0 || abstime->tv_nsec >= 1000000000)
-    return EINVAL;
-
-  /* Upgrade the lock.  */
-  if (atomic_exchange_acq (futex, 2) == 0)
-    return 0;
-
-  do
-    {
-      struct timeval tv;
-
-      /* Get the current time.  */
-      (void) __gettimeofday (&tv, NULL);
-
-      /* Compute relative timeout.  */
-      rt.tv_sec = abstime->tv_sec - tv.tv_sec;
-      rt.tv_nsec = abstime->tv_nsec - tv.tv_usec * 1000;
-      if (rt.tv_nsec < 0)
- {
-  rt.tv_nsec += 1000000000;
-  --rt.tv_sec;
- }
-
-      /* Already timed out?  */
-      if (rt.tv_sec < 0)
- return ETIMEDOUT;
-
-      // XYZ: Lost the lock to check whether it was private.
-      lll_futex_timed_wait (futex, 2, &rt, private);
-    }
-  while (atomic_compare_and_exchange_bool_acq (futex, 2, 0) != 0);
-
-  return 0;
-}
-
-
-int
-__lll_timedwait_tid (int *tidp, const struct timespec *abstime)
-{
-  int tid;
-
-  if (abstime->tv_nsec < 0 || abstime->tv_nsec >= 1000000000)
-    return EINVAL;
-
-  /* Repeat until thread terminated.  */
-  while ((tid = *tidp) != 0)
-    {
-      struct timeval tv;
-      struct timespec rt;
-
-      /* Get the current time.  */
-      (void) __gettimeofday (&tv, NULL);
-
-      /* Compute relative timeout.  */
-      rt.tv_sec = abstime->tv_sec - tv.tv_sec;
-      rt.tv_nsec = abstime->tv_nsec - tv.tv_usec * 1000;
-      if (rt.tv_nsec < 0)
- {
-  rt.tv_nsec += 1000000000;
-  --rt.tv_sec;
- }
-
-      /* Already timed out?  */
-      if (rt.tv_sec < 0)
- return ETIMEDOUT;
-
-      /* Wait until thread terminates.  */
-      // XYZ: Lost the lock to check whether it was private.
-      if (lll_futex_timed_wait (tidp, tid, &rt, LLL_SHARED) == -ETIMEDOUT)
- return ETIMEDOUT;
-    }
-
-  return 0;
-}
-#endif


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