linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] atomics: add acquire/release/relaxed variants of some atomic operations

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:24:20 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Waiman.Long@...com" <Waiman.Long@...com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] atomics: add acquire/release/relaxed variants of
 some atomic operations

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:08:11PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:58:37AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:


> > #ifndef atomic_add_return_relaxed
> > 
> > #define atomic_add_return_relaxed	atomic_add_return
> > /*
> >  * If one cannot define a more relaxed version,
> >  * acquire/release are out the window too.
> >  */
> > #define  atomic_add_return_acquire	atomic_add_return
> > #define  atomic_add_return_release	atomic_add_return
> > 
> > #else /* relaxed */
> > 
> > #ifndef atomic_add_return_acquire
> > #define  atomic_add_return_acquire(args...)	\
> > do {						\
> > 	atomic_add_return_relaxed(args);	\
> > 	smp_mb__after_atomic();			\
> > } while (0)
> > #endif
> > 
> > #ifndef atomic_add_return_release
> > #define  atomic_add_return_release(args...)	\
> > do {						\
> > 	smp_mb__before_atomic();		\
> > 	atomic_add_return_relaxed(args);	\
> > } while (0)
> > #endif

One could even take it one step further and go:

#ifndef atomic_add_return
#define atomic_add_return(args...)		\
do {						\
	smp_mb__before_atomic();		\
	atomid_add_return_relaxed(args);	\
	smp_mb__after_atomic();			\
} while (0)

> > 
> > #endif /* relaxed */
> 
> If a picture is worth a thousand words, a patch is worth at least a thousand
> pictures.

:-)
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