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ARM: SWP emulation: always enable when SMP is enabled

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SWP is deprecated in ARMv6 and ARMv7 CPUs, but more importantly, when
running on a SMP system, SWP doesn't guarantee atomicity.  This means
it can't really be used (by userspace) for locking purposes in a SMP
environment.

Currently, many configurations leave the SWP emulation disabled, which
means we never know if userspace executes this instruction on ARMv7
hardware.  Rectify this by enabling SWP emulation for ARMv7 with SMP
(where we can trap the instruction.)

Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King 2014-07-04 14:44:36 +01:00
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@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ config ARM_VIRT_EXT
details.
config SWP_EMULATE
bool "Emulate SWP/SWPB instructions"
bool "Emulate SWP/SWPB instructions" if !SMP
depends on CPU_V7
default y if SMP
select HAVE_PROC_CPU if PROC_FS