There's a typedef for non-pointer values compatible with atomic
non-pointer objects. Add a similar typedef for pointer values, and
the corresponding macro for initializing atomic pointer types.
This also will simplify replacing the Zephyr atomic API with one
based on C11 atomics, should that be desirable. C11 atomic pointer
values are not void*.
Signed-off-by: Peter Bigot <peter.bigot@nordicsemi.no>
The xtensa atomics layer was written with hand-coded assembly that had
to be called as functions. That's needlessly slow, given that the low
level primitives are a two-instruction sequence. Ideally the compiler
should see this as an inline to permit it to better optimize around
the needed barriers.
There was also a bug with the atomic_cas function, which had a loop
internally instead of returning the old value synchronously on a
failed swap. That's benign right now because our existing spin lock
does nothing but retry it in a tight loop anyway, but it's incorrect
per spec and would have caused a contention hang with more elaborate
algorithms (for example a spinlock with backoff semantics).
Remove the old implementation and replace with a much smaller inline C
one based on just two assembly primitives.
This patch also contains a little bit of refactoring to address the
scheme has been split out into a separate header for each, and the
ATOMIC_OPERATIONS_CUSTOM kconfig has been renamed to
ATOMIC_OPERATIONS_ARCH to better capture what it means.
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
