* John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001003 00:01] wrote:
> 
> On 25-Sep-00 Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
> > Kevin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I found the atomic_* functions in <machine/atomic.h>, but noticed that they
> >>have no return value.  What I need is a function that increments/decrements
> >>the given value *and* returns the new value in an atomic operation.  I
> >>suppose this is possible, yes?  How would one modify the assembly to make
> >>this work?
> > 
> > 
> > Atomic decrement, in the Intel style:
> > 
> > long atomic_decrement(volatile long* address)
> > {
> >   asm {
> >     mov ecx, [address]
> >     mov eax, -1
> >     lock xadd [ecx], eax
> >     dec eax
> >   }
> >  /* Return value in EAX */
> > }
> > 
> > An untested conversion into the GNU/AT&T style:
> > 
> > long atomic_decrement(volatile long* address)
> > {
> >  asm("movl 8(%ebp),%ecx");
> >  asm("movl $-1, %eax");
> >  asm("lock xaddl %eax,(%ecx)");
> >  asm("decl %eax");
> >  /* Return value in %eax */
> > }
> 
> Uh, there is no xaddl instruction in the x86 instruction set.  There is
> a fetchadd instruction in ia64, but that doesn't help much here.  You
> can use a loop with the atomic_cmpset_* primitives though to achieve this.
> e.g.:
> 
> volatile int value;
> int save, increment;
> 
>    value = 3; increment = 4;
>    do {
>       save = value;
>    } while (atomic_cmpset_int(&value, save, save + increment) == 0);
>    foo = some_array[save + increment];
> 
> You can use this to control access to a circular buffer w/o needing a
> lock to obtain new entries for example.  This will only work with -current
> though.

Mike Smith and I discussed atomic types and the problem is that not
all arches can do all the ops we want, as a compromise we can use
macros to wrap the ops as long as we use constructors and destructors
for atomic_t.

this could use some testing/comments, my gcc+asm is terrible:

Index: atomic.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/include/atomic.h,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -u -r1.12 atomic.h
--- atomic.h    2000/09/06 11:21:14     1.12
+++ atomic.h    2000/10/03 07:05:59
@@ -218,6 +218,31 @@
        return (
            atomic_cmpset_int((volatile u_int *)dst, (u_int)exp, (u_int)src));
 }
-#endif
+
+typedef struct { volatile int a; } atomic_t;
+
+#define atomic_init(p, v)      do { p->a = v; } while(0)
+#define atomic_destroy(p)      do { ; } while(0)
+#define atomic_add(p, v)       atomic_add_int(&(p->a), v)
+#define atomic_sub(p, v)       atomic_subtract_int(&(p->a), v)
+#define atomic_or(p, v)                atomic_set_int(&(p->a), v)
+#define atomic_and(p, v)       atomic_clear_int(&(p->a), v)
+#define atomic_read(p)         ((p)->a)
+#define atomic_set(p, v)       do { (p)->a = (v); } while(0);
+/* XXX: maybe use decl/incl ? */
+#define atomic_dec(p)          atomic_sub(&(p->a), 1)
+#define atomic_inc(p)          atomic_add(&(p->a), 1)
+
+static __inline int
+atomic_dec_and_test(volatile atomic_t *v)
+{
+       unsigned char c;
+
+       __asm __volatile("lock ; decl %0; sete %1"
+                        : "=m" (v->a), "=qm" (c)
+                        : "m" (v->a));
+       return (c != 0);
+}
+#endif /* !WANT_FUNCTIONS */
 
 #endif /* ! _MACHINE_ATOMIC_H_ */




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