linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS

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Date:   Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:29:54 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Guo Ren <guoren@...nel.org>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-csky@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Guo Ren <guoren@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add
 ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 01:16:53PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Anyway, an additional 'funny' is that I suspect you cannot prove fwd
> progress of the entire primitive with any of this on. But who cares
> about details anyway.. :/

What's the architectural guarantee on LL/SC progress for RISC-V ? And
what if you double loop it like cmpxchg() ?