On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 09:51:52AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 06:16:48PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > > Another thing is that smp_lwsync() may have a third user(other than
> > > > > smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release()):
> > > > >
> > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded/89877
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm OK to change my patch accordingly, but do we really want
> > > > > smp_lwsync() get involved in this cleanup? If I understand you
> > > > > correctly, this cleanup focuses on external API like smp_{r,w,}mb(),
> > > > > while smp_lwsync() is internal to PPC.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Boqun
> > > >
> > > > I think you missed the leading ___ :)
> > > >
> > >
> > > What I mean here was smp_lwsync() was originally internal to PPC, but
> > > never mind ;-)
> > >
> > > > smp_store_release is external and it needs __smp_lwsync as
> > > > defined here.
> > > >
> > > > I can duplicate some code and have smp_lwsync *not* call __smp_lwsync
> > >
> > > You mean bringing smp_lwsync() back? because I haven't seen you defining
> > > in asm-generic/barriers.h in previous patches and you just delete it in
> > > this patch.
> > >
> > > > but why do this? Still, if you prefer it this way,
> > > > please let me know.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think deleting smp_lwsync() is fine, though I need to change atomic
> > > variants patches on PPC because of it ;-/
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Boqun
> >
> > Sorry, I don't understand - why do you have to do anything?
> > I changed all users of smp_lwsync so they
> > use __smp_lwsync on SMP and barrier() on !SMP.
> >
> > This is exactly the current behaviour, I also tested that
> > generated code does not change at all.
> >
> > Is there a patch in your tree that conflicts with this?
> >
>
> Because in a patchset which implements atomic relaxed/acquire/release
> variants on PPC I use smp_lwsync(), this makes it have another user,
> please see this mail:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded/89877
>
> in definition of PPC's __atomic_op_release().
>
>
> But I think removing smp_lwsync() is a good idea and actually I think we
> can go further to remove __smp_lwsync() and let __smp_load_acquire and
> __smp_store_release call __lwsync() directly, but that is another thing.
>
> Anyway, I will modify my patch.
>
> Regards,
> Boqun
Thanks!
Could you send an ack then please?
> >
> > > > > > WRITE_ONCE(*p, v);
> > > > > > \
> > > > > > } while (0)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -#define smp_load_acquire(p)
> > > > > > \
> > > > > > +#define __smp_load_acquire(p)
> > > > > > \
> > > > > > ({
> > > > > > \
> > > > > > typeof(*p) ___p1 = READ_ONCE(*p);
> > > > > > \
> > > > > > compiletime_assert_atomic_type(*p);
> > > > > > \
> > > > > > - smp_lwsync();
> > > > > > \
> > > > > > + __smp_lwsync();
> > > > > > \
> > > > > > ___p1;
> > > > > > \
> > > > > > })
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > MST
> > > > > >
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