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Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 08:36:46 -0600 From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Question about barriers for ARM on tools/perf/ On 5/8/15 8:27 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 03:25:13PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 03:21:08PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: >>> Wouldn't it be better to go the other way, and use compiler builtins for >>> the memory barriers instead of relying on the kernel? It looks like the >>> perf_mmap__{read,write}_head functions are basically just acquire/release >>> operations and could therefore be implemented using something like >>> __atomic_load_n(&pc->data_head, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE) and >>> __atomic_store_n(&pc->data_tail, tail, __ATOMIC_RELEASE). >> >> He wants to do smp refcounting, which needs atomic_inc() / >> atomic_inc_non_zero() / atomic_dec_return() etc.. > > Right, of course, but GCC has those too: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html And we need a solution that works from RHEL5 forward. Not sure what gcc version that is; RHEL6 uses 4.4.7. We have done a prototype with the __sync functions and it worked nicely. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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