[PATCH 2/8] powerpc/pseries: use smp_rmb() in H_CONFER spin yield

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 20:36:27 AEST 2020


Excerpts from Peter Zijlstra's message of July 2, 2020 6:28 pm:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 05:48:33PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> There is no need for rmb(), this allows faster lwsync here.
> 
> Since you determined this; I'm thinking you actually understand the
> ordering here. How about recording this understanding in a comment?
> 
> Also, should the lock->slock load not use READ_ONCE() ?

Yeah, good point. Maybe I'll drop it from this series, doesn't really 
belong I just saw the cleanup and didn't want to forget it.

We we just ordering the two loads in this function, and !SMP isn't a 
concern (i.e., no issues of !SMP guest on SMP HV), but yeah fixing
the lack of comment is warranted, thanks.

Thanks,
Nick


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