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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 14:05:48 +0000
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] arch: Introduce new TSO memory barrier smp_tmb()
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:53:44PM +0000, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:11:27PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Some comments below. I believe that opcodes need to be fixed for IA64.
> I am unsure of the ifdefs and opcodes for arm64, but the ARM folks should
> be able to tell us.
[...]
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
> > index 60f15e274e6d..a804093d6891 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
> > @@ -53,10 +53,36 @@
> > #define smp_mb() barrier()
> > #define smp_rmb() barrier()
> > #define smp_wmb() barrier()
> > +
> > +#define smp_store_release(p, v) \
> > +do { \
> > + smp_mb(); \
> > + ACCESS_ONCE(p) = (v); \
> > +} while (0)
> > +
> > +#define smp_load_acquire(p, v) \
> > +do { \
> > + typeof(p) ___p1 = ACCESS_ONCE(p); \
> > + smp_mb(); \
> > + return ___p1; \
> > +} while (0)
What data sizes do these accessors operate on? Assuming that we want
single-copy atomicity (with respect to interrupts in the UP case), we
probably want a check to stop people passing in things like structs.
> > #else
> > #define smp_mb() dmb(ish)
> > #define smp_rmb() smp_mb()
> > #define smp_wmb() dmb(ishst)
> > +
>
> Seems like there should be some sort of #ifdef condition to distinguish
> between these. My guess is something like:
>
> #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ > 7
>
> But I must defer to the ARM guys. For all I know, they might prefer
> arch/arm to stick with smp_mb() and have arch/arm64 do the ldar and stlr.
Yes. For arch/arm/, I'd rather we stick with the smp_mb() for the time
being. We don't (yet) have any 32-bit ARMv8 support, and the efforts towards
a single zImage could do without minor variations like this, not to mention
the usual backlash I get whenever introducing something that needs a
relatively recent binutils.
> > +#define smp_store_release(p, v) \
> > +do { \
> > + asm volatile ("stlr %w0 [%1]" : : "r" (v), "r" (&p) : "memory");\
> > +} while (0)
> > +
> > +#define smp_load_acquire(p) \
> > +do { \
> > + typeof(p) ___p1; \
> > + asm volatile ("ldar %w0, [%1]" \
> > + : "=r" (___p1) : "r" (&p) : "memory"); \
> > + return ___p1; \
> > +} while (0)
> > #endif
> >
> > #define read_barrier_depends() do { } while(0)
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> > index d4a63338a53c..0da2d4ebb9a8 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> > @@ -35,10 +35,38 @@
> > #define smp_mb() barrier()
> > #define smp_rmb() barrier()
> > #define smp_wmb() barrier()
> > +
> > +#define smp_store_release(p, v) \
> > +do { \
> > + smp_mb(); \
> > + ACCESS_ONCE(p) = (v); \
> > +} while (0)
> > +
> > +#define smp_load_acquire(p, v) \
> > +do { \
> > + typeof(p) ___p1 = ACCESS_ONCE(p); \
> > + smp_mb(); \
> > + return ___p1; \
> > +} while (0)
> > +
> > #else
> > +
> > #define smp_mb() asm volatile("dmb ish" : : : "memory")
> > #define smp_rmb() asm volatile("dmb ishld" : : : "memory")
> > #define smp_wmb() asm volatile("dmb ishst" : : : "memory")
> > +
> > +#define smp_store_release(p, v) \
> > +do { \
> > + asm volatile ("stlr %w0 [%1]" : : "r" (v), "r" (&p) : "memory");\
Missing comma between the operands. Also, that 'w' output modifier enforces
a 32-bit store (same early question about sizes). Finally, it might be more
efficient to use "=Q" for the addressing mode, rather than take the address
of p manually.
> > +} while (0)
> > +
> > +#define smp_load_acquire(p) \
> > +do { \
> > + typeof(p) ___p1; \
> > + asm volatile ("ldar %w0, [%1]" \
> > + : "=r" (___p1) : "r" (&p) : "memory"); \
> > + return ___p1; \
Similar comments here wrt Q constraint.
Random other question: have you considered how these accessors should behave
when presented with __iomem pointers?
Will
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