Hi Peter,
There is one question regarding following commit:
commit 69d927bba39517d0980462efc051875b7f4db185
Author: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Date: Wed Apr 24 13:38:23 2019 +0200
x86/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
Recent probing at the Linux Kernel Memory Model uncovered a
'surprise'. Strongly ordered architectures where the atomic RmW
primitive implies full memory ordering and
smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() are a simple barrier() (such as x86)
This change made atomic RmW operations include compiler barrier. And
made __smp_mb__before_atomic/__smp_mb__after_atomic not include compiler
barrier any more for x86.
We face the issue to handle atomic_set/atomic_read which is mapped to
WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE on x86. These two functions don't include compiler
barrier actually (if operator size is less than 8 bytes).
Before the commit 69d927bba39517d0980462efc051875b7f4db185, we could use
__smp_mb__before_atomic/__smp_mb__after_atomic together with these two
functions to make sure the memory order. It can't work after the commit
69d927bba39517d0980462efc051875b7f4db185. I am wandering whether
we should make atomic_set/atomic_read also include compiler memory
barrier on x86? Thanks.
Regards
Yin, Fengwei
