linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 31/32] sh: support a 2-byte smp_store

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:37:49 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, Jeff Dionne <jeff@...inux.org>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 31/32] sh: support a 2-byte smp_store_mb

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 06:53:01PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> It would be nice to have these in asm-generic for archs which don't
> define their own versions rather than having cruft like this repeated
> per-arch. 

Maybe, but I'm not sure how many archs would indeed suffer this problem,
so far I'm only aware of Alpha and SH that do not have short atomic ops.

> Strictly speaking, the volatile u32 used to access the
> 32-bit word containing the u8 or u16 should be
> __attribute__((__may_alias__)) too. Is there an existing kernel type
> for a "may_alias u32" or should it perhaps be added?

The kernel does -fno-strict-aliasing because the C aliasing rules are
crap (TM) :-), so I suspect we do not need the alias attribute here.
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