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Message-ID: <ee39e467d23070c00aa39f12895fe346406f527f.camel@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:32:21 -0400
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@...ux.dev>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] timekeeping: don't use seqcount loop in
ktime_mono_to_any on 64-bit arch
On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 13:58 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10 2024 at 07:17, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> Please describe functions with foo() and not foo. Also please refrain
> from using abbreviations. The 'arch' above is not really useful.
>
> 64-bit systems perhaps?
>
Thanks, will fix.
> > ktime_mono_to_any only fetches the offset inside the loop. This is a
> > single word on 64-bit arch, and seqcount_read_begin implies a full SMP
> > barrier. While we do want to use the latest offset value available, a
>
> We do nothing.
>
I assume you mean "we do not". Fair enough. I misinterpreted the
purpose of the seqcount loop then.
> > full seqcount loop is overkill on 64-bit, where there is no possibility
> > of torn reads. Just do a READ_ONCE for that and don't bother with the
> > seqcount.
>
> don't bother is not really a technical term.
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-tip.html#changelog
>
Thanks, fixed.
> > +#if BITS_PER_LONG == 64
> > +ktime_t ktime_mono_to_any(ktime_t tmono, enum tk_offsets offs)
> > +{
> > + ktime_t *offset = offsets[offs];
> > +
> > + return ktime_add(tmono, READ_ONCE(*offset));
>
> Where is the corresponing WRITE_ONCE()?
>
I'll just make it do a simple fetch without READ_ONCE.
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_mono_to_any);
> > +#else /* BITS_PER_LONG == 64 */
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_mono_to_any);
> > +#endif /* BITS_PER_LONG == 64 */
>
> Why do we need this export twice?
>
We don't (obviously). I wasn't sure whether it was preferred to put it
inside the #ifdef.
Now that I look though, the resulting helper is very simple. Would it
be better to make this a static inline instead of an exported symbol?
----------------8<----------------
ktime_t ktime_mono_to_any(ktime_t tmono, enum tk_offsets offs)
{
ktime_t *offset = offsets[offs];
return ktime_add(tmono, *offset);
}
----------------8<----------------
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
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