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Message-ID: <25408.1570091957@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:39:17 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     paulmck@...nel.org
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, edumazet@...gle.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
        oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Shane M Seymour <shane.seymour@....com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/9] rcu: Upgrade rcu_swap_protected() to rcu_replace()

paulmck@...nel.org wrote:

> +#define rcu_replace(rcu_ptr, ptr, c)					\
> +({									\
> +	typeof(ptr) __tmp = rcu_dereference_protected((rcu_ptr), (c));	\
> +	rcu_assign_pointer((rcu_ptr), (ptr));				\
> +	__tmp;								\
> +})

Does it make sense to actually use xchg() if that's supported by the arch?

David

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