Hi Ben, Thanks for your time to review. I am sorry not to verify this patch by clang compiler. But this patch compiles successfully in gcc 7.4. Maybe in some gcc version, the atomic type is necessary for atomic operation. I will fix it in V2.
Best Regards, Wei Yanqin > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 5:54 AM > To: Yanqin Wei (Arm Technology China) <yanqin....@arm.com> > Cc: d...@openvswitch.org; ovs-dev@openvswitch.org; nd <n...@arm.com>; > Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China) <gavin...@arm.com> > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v1] netdev: use acquire-release semantics for > change_seq in netdev > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:46:59AM +0800, Yanqin Wei wrote: > > "rxq_enabled" of netdev is writen in the vhost thread and read by pmd > > thread once it observes 'change_seq' is updated. This patch is to keep > > order on aarch64 or other weak memory model CPU to ensure > > 'rxq_enabled' is observed before 'change_seq'. > > > > Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin...@arm.com> > > Signed-off-by: Yanqin Wei <yanqin....@arm.com> > > Thanks for the patch. > > This does not compile. Clang says: > > In file included from ../lib/dpif-netdev.c:54: > ../lib/netdev-provider.h:97:5: error: address argument to atomic operation > must be a pointer to _Atomic type ('uint64_t *' (aka 'unsigned long *') > invalid) > ../lib/ovs-atomic-clang.h:82:16: note: expanded from macro > 'atomic_add_explicit' > In file included from ../lib/dpif-netdev.c:54: > ../lib/netdev-provider.h:99:9: error: address argument to atomic operation > must be a pointer to _Atomic type ('uint64_t *' (aka 'unsigned long *') > invalid) > ../lib/ovs-atomic-clang.h:82:16: note: expanded from macro > 'atomic_add_explicit' > ../lib/netdev.c:2044:5: error: address argument to atomic operation must > be > a pointer to _Atomic type ('const uint64_t *' (aka 'const unsigned long *') > invalid) > ../lib/ovs-atomic-clang.h:53:15: note: expanded from macro > 'atomic_read_explicit' > > and many more instances. > > GCC says: > > ../lib/netdev.c:2044:5: error: incorrect type in argument 1 (different > modifiers) > ../lib/netdev.c:2044:5: expected void * > ../lib/netdev.c:2044:5: got unsigned long const * > ../lib/netdev.c:2044:5: error: incorrect type in argument 1 (different > modifiers) > ../lib/netdev.c:2044:5: expected void * > ../lib/netdev.c:2044:5: got unsigned long const * > > I do tend to think it's correct, otherwise. I wonder how this has been missed > for so long. > > Thanks, > > Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev