linux-kernel - Re: Re: Re: [PATCH v2] arm: Adding support for atomic half word exchange

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Date:	Tue, 06 Oct 2015 03:08:44 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Sarbojit Ganguly <ganguly.s@...sung.com>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Sarbojit Ganguly <ganguly.s@...sung.com>
Cc:	"linux@....linux.org.uk" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"catalin.marinas@....com" <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"Waiman.Long@...com" <Waiman.Long@...com>,
	"peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	VIKRAM MUPPARTHI <vikram.m@...sung.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	SUNEEL KUMAR SURIMANI <suneel@...sung.com>,
	SHARAN ALLUR <sharan.allur@...sung.com>,
	"torvalds@...ux-foundation.org" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [PATCH v2] arm: Adding support for atomic half word
 exchange

Hello Will,

Thank you so much for the review. I have thought it over and it makes
sense not to have that comment in cmpxchg.h, I will also change !defined to
#ifndef and quickly post a v3.

Regards,
Sarbojit

------- Original Message -------
Sender : Will Deacon<will.deacon@....com>
Date : Oct 05, 2015 21:30 (GMT+05:30)
Title : Re: Re: [PATCH v2] arm: Adding support for atomic half word exchange

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:10:53PM +0000, Sarbojit Ganguly wrote:
> My sincere apologies for the format issue. This was due to the e-mail editor
> which reformats the text.
> I am reposting the patch, please let me know if it is ok this time.
> 
> 
> v1-->v2 : Extended the guard code to cover the byte exchange case as 
> well following opinion of Will Deacon.
> Checkpatch has been run and issues were taken care of.
> 
> Since support for half-word atomic exchange was not there and Qspinlock
> on ARM requires it, modified __xchg() to add support for that as well.
> ARMv6 and lower does not support ldrex{b,h} so, added a guard code
> to prevent build breaks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sarbojit Ganguly 
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> index 916a274..a53cbeb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __xchg(unsigned long x, volatile void *ptr, int size
>  
>   switch (size) {
>  #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_CPU_V6)

#ifndef ? (to match the __cmpxchg code).

>   case 1:
>   asm volatile("@ __xchg1\n"
>   "1: ldrexb %0, [%3]\n"
> @@ -49,6 +50,22 @@ static inline unsigned long __xchg(unsigned long x, volatile void *ptr, int size
>   : "r" (x), "r" (ptr)
>   : "memory", "cc");
>   break;
> +
> + /*
> + * Half-word atomic exchange, required
> + * for Qspinlock support on ARM.
> + */

I think I said it before, but I don't think this comment is of any real
value.

Other than those, this looks ok to me.

Will


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