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Message-ID: <20201005153519.GJ2628@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 17:35:19 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, parri.andrea@...il.com,
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j.alglave@....ac.uk, luc.maranget@...ia.fr, akiyks@...il.com,
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linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Litmus test for question from Al Viro
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 11:16:39AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 04:13:13PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > The failure to recognize the dependency in P0 should be considered a
> > > combined limitation of the memory model and herd7. It's not a simple
> > > mistake that can be fixed by a small rewrite of herd7; rather it's a
> > > deliberate choice we made based on herd7's inherent design. We
> > > explicitly said that control dependencies extend only to the code in the
> > > branches of an "if" statement; anything beyond the end of the statement
> > > is not considered to be dependent.
> >
> > Interesting. How does this interact with loops that are conditionally broken
> > out of, e.g. a relaxed cmpxchg() loop or an smp_cond_load_relaxed() call
> > prior to a WRITE_ONCE()?
>
> Heh -- We finesse this issue by not supporting loops at all! :-)
Right, so something like:
smp_cond_load_relaxed(x, !VAL);
WRITE_ONCE(*y, 1);
Would be modeled like:
r1 = READ_ONCE(*x);
if (!r1)
WRITE_ONCE(*y, 1);
with an r1==0 constraint in the condition I suppose ?
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