linux-kernel - Re: Do we need to correct barriering in circular-buffers.rst?

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Date:   Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:02:29 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        jose.marchesi@...cle.com
Subject: Re: Do we need to correct barriering in circular-buffers.rst?

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 01:54:40PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:33:52AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Like I said before, something like: "disallowing store hoists over control
> > flow depending on a volatile load" would be sufficient I think.
> 
> We need to add 'control flow depending on an inline-asm' to that. We
> also very much use that.

An example of that would be something like:

bool spin_try_lock(struct spinlock *lock)
{
	u32 zero = 0;

	if (atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->val, &zero, 1)) {
		smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(); /* aka smp_rmb() */
		return true;
	}

	return false;
}

(I think most our actual trylock functions use cmpxchg_acquire(), but the
above would be a valid implementation -- and it is the simplest
construct using smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() I could come up with in a
hurry)