Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as base
[kvmfornfv.git] / kernel / arch / arm / include / asm / mutex.h
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+/*
+ * arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h
+ *
+ * ARM optimized mutex locking primitives
+ *
+ * Please look into asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h for a formal definition.
+ */
+#ifndef _ASM_MUTEX_H
+#define _ASM_MUTEX_H
+/*
+ * On pre-ARMv6 hardware this results in a swp-based implementation,
+ * which is the most efficient. For ARMv6+, we have exclusive memory
+ * accessors and use atomic_dec to avoid the extra xchg operations
+ * on the locking slowpaths.
+ */
+#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6
+#include <asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h>
+#else
+#include <asm-generic/mutex-dec.h>
+#endif
+#endif /* _ASM_MUTEX_H */