From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
elver@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
peterz@infradead.org, dianders@chromium.org, pmladek@suse.com,
arnd@arndb.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
kernel-team@meta.com, Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 cmpxchg 12/13] sh: Emulate one-byte cmpxchg
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 16:45:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b0acc4c-6ba9-4743-bad7-2baa1e29b085@paulmck-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240502232447.GO2118490@ZenIV>
On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 12:24:47AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 04:12:44PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > > I'm probably missing your point, though - what mix of cmpxchg and
> > > smp_store_release on 8bit values?
> >
> > One of RCU's state machines uses smp_store_release() to start the
> > state machine (only one task gets to do this) and cmpxchg() to update
> > state beyond that point. And the state is 8 bits so that it and other
> > state fits into 32 bits to allow a single check for multiple conditions
> > elsewhere.
>
> Humm... smp_store_release() of 8bit on old alpha is mb + fetch 64bit + replace
> 8 bits + store 64bit...
Agreed, which is why Arnd is moving his patches ahead. (He and I
discussed this some weeks back, so not a surprise for him.)
For my part, I dropped 16-bit cmpxchg emulation when moving from the
RFC series to v1.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-02 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2024-05-01 23:01 ` [PATCH v2 cmpxchg 12/13] sh: Emulate one-byte cmpxchg Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-02 4:52 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-02 5:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-02 5:11 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-02 13:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-02 20:53 ` Al Viro
2024-05-02 21:01 ` alpha cmpxchg.h (was Re: [PATCH v2 cmpxchg 12/13] sh: Emulate one-byte cmpxchg) Al Viro
2024-05-02 22:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-02 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 cmpxchg 12/13] sh: Emulate one-byte cmpxchg Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-02 22:07 ` Al Viro
2024-05-02 23:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-02 23:24 ` Al Viro
2024-05-02 23:45 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2024-05-02 23:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-03 0:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-02 21:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-02 5:42 ` D. Jeff Dionne
2024-05-02 11:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
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