pthread__smt_pause. These are implemented using the ARM instructions
SEV (wake) and WFE (pause). These are treated as NOPs on ARM CPUs that
don't support them.
and use it preferentially to a value in pt_uc, clearing it once on the new
stack. Move stores into pt_uc back to before the stack switch; storing
after the stack switch opened a one-instruction race condition where an upcall
that had just started a chain could be preempted again, and would bomb when
restarted due to its pt_uc not yet having been updated. Now that pt_trapuc
is what the upcall code writes to, it is safe to store to pt_uc before
switching stacks.
Remove obsolete pt_sleepuc code.
* In switch-away cases, write PT_SWITCHTO last (after PT_SWITCHTOUC), so
that pthread__resolve_locks() doesn't see an empty SWITCHTOUC value. This
also permits pthread__resolve_locks() to use the presence of PT_SWITCHTO
as a sign that the thread has done all of its necessary chain work.
* Make the return-point of pthread__switch global and visible, so that its
address can be compared to the PC of a thread, again as a sign that its
chain-work is done.
(other architectures in progress, after they get the *previous* asm fix...)
matt