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Spinlock
// assumes locks are not freed
void
initlock(struct spinlock *lk, char *name)
{
lk->name = name;
lk->locked = 0;
lk->cpu = 0;
lk->nts = 0;
lk->n = 0;
if(nlock >= NLOCK)
panic("initlock");
locks[nlock] = lk;
nlock++;
}
// Acquire the lock.
// Loops (spins) until the lock is acquired.
void
acquire(struct spinlock *lk)
{
push_off(); // disable interrupts to avoid deadlock.
if(holding(lk))
panic("acquire");
__sync_fetch_and_add(&(lk->n), 1);
// On RISC-V, sync_lock_test_and_set turns into an atomic swap:
// a5 = 1
// s1 = &lk->locked
// amoswap.w.aq a5, a5, (s1)
while(__sync_lock_test_and_set(&lk->locked, 1) != 0) {
__sync_fetch_and_add(&lk->nts, 1);
}
// Tell the C compiler and the processor to not move loads or stores
// past this point, to ensure that the critical section's memory
// references happen strictly after the lock is acquired.
// On RISC-V, this emits a fence instruction.
__sync_synchronize();
// Record info about lock acquisition for holding() and debugging.
lk->cpu = mycpu();
}
// Release the lock.
void
release(struct spinlock *lk)
{
if(!holding(lk))
panic("release");
lk->cpu = 0;
// Tell the C compiler and the CPU to not move loads or stores
// past this point, to ensure that all the stores in the critical
// section are visible to other CPUs before the lock is released,
// and that loads in the critical section occur strictly before
// the lock is released.
// On RISC-V, this emits a fence instruction.
__sync_synchronize();
// Release the lock, equivalent to lk->locked = 0.
// This code doesn't use a C assignment, since the C standard
// implies that an assignment might be implemented with
// multiple store instructions.
// On RISC-V, sync_lock_release turns into an atomic swap:
// s1 = &lk->locked
// amoswap.w zero, zero, (s1)
__sync_lock_release(&lk->locked);
pop_off();
}