Let's provide a basic lock implementation that should work on most architectures. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/asm-generic/spinlock.h | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/asm-generic/spinlock.h b/lib/asm-generic/spinlock.h index 3141744..e8c3a58 100644 --- a/lib/asm-generic/spinlock.h +++ b/lib/asm-generic/spinlock.h @@ -1,4 +1,18 @@ #ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK_H_ #define _ASM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK_H_ -#error need architecture specific asm/spinlock.h + +struct spinlock { + unsigned int v; +}; + +static inline void spin_lock(struct spinlock *lock) +{ + while (!__sync_bool_compare_and_swap(&lock->v, 0, 1)); +} + +static inline void spin_unlock(struct spinlock *lock) +{ + __sync_bool_compare_and_swap(&lock->v, 1, 0); +} + #endif -- 2.9.3