linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount

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Message-ID: <1377822408.4028.44.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:26:48 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@...com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@...com>,
	Michael Neuling <michael.neuling@....ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless
 update of refcount

On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 16:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> For architecture people (ie Ben, if you want to try this on ppc64),
> the thing that it needs from an architecture:
> 
>  - the raw_spinlock_t and the "unsigned long" needs to fit in a u64.

I assume you mean unsigned int ? :-)

 .../...

>  - the architecture needs to implement a simple
> "arch_spin_value_unlocked()" macro, which takes a raw_spinlock_t value
> and says whether it is unlocked or not.

What's wrong with the existing arch_spin_is_locked() ?

BTW. Do you have your test case at hand ?

Cheers,
Ben.

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