[PATCH v3 6/6] powerpc: atomic: Implement cmpxchg{,64}_* and atomic{,64}_cmpxchg_* variants

Boqun Feng boqun.feng at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 02:45:18 AEDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 04:04:27PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:58:30PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 03:43:33PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > Putting a barrier in the middle of that critical section is probably a
> > > terrible idea, and that's why I thought you were avoiding it (hence my
> > 
> > The fact is that I haven't thought of that way to implement
> > cmpxchg_release before you ask that question ;-) And I'm not going to do
> > that for now and probably not in the future.
> > 
> > > original question). Perhaps just add a comment to that effect, since I
> > 
> > Are you suggesting if I put a barrier in the middle I'd better to add a
> > comment, right? So if I don't do that, it's OK to let this patch as it.
> 
> No, I mean put a comment in your file to explain the reason why you
> override _relaxed and _acquire, but not _release (because overriding
> _release would introduce this weird barrier in the middle of the critical
> section, which would likely cause the conditional store to fail).
> 

Good idea, will do that. Thank you ;-)

Regards,
Boqun
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