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Message-ID: <20151030005633.GA2792@fixme-laptop.cn.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:56:34 +0800
From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND, tip/locking/core, v5, 1/6] powerpc: atomic: Make
_return atomics and *{cmp}xchg fully ordered
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:06:52AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 01:33:47PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-26-10 at 10:15:36 UTC, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > > This patch fixes two problems to make value-returning atomics and
> > > {cmp}xchg fully ordered on PPC.
> >
> > Hi Boqun,
> >
> > Can you please split this into two patches. One that does the cmpxchg change
> > and one that changes PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER.
> >
>
> OK, make sense ;-)
>
> > Also given how pervasive this change is I'd like to take it via the powerpc
> > next tree, so can you please send this patch (which will be two after you split
> > it) as powerpc patches. And the rest can go via tip?
> >
>
> One problem is that patch 5 will remove __xchg_u32 and __xchg_64
> entirely, which are modified in this patch(patch 1), so there will be
> some conflicts if two branch get merged, I think.
>
> Alternative way is that all this series go to powerpc next tree as most
> of the dependent patches are already there. I just need to remove
> inc/dec related code and resend them when appropriate. Besides, I can
> pull patch 2 out and send it as a tip patch because it's general code
> and no one depends on this in this series.
>
> To summerize:
>
> patch 1(split to two), 3, 4(remove inc/dec implementation), 5, 6 sent as
> powerpc patches for powerpc next, patch 2(unmodified) sent as tip patch
> for locking/core.
>
> Peter and Michael, this works for you both?
>
Thoughts? ;-)
Regards,
Boqun
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