From: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-csky@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:18:56 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJF2gTSGLn7katm6YAtkKWJcQRqw36_yqn+aK1pKUSRM5V1zUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0DkbM=4oBBhA2DWvzMV7DwN1sqOU8Wa1qFtpd_w7iWmQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 3:12 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 4:26 AM Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 9:56 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:52 PM Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 7:31 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > What's the architectural guarantee on LL/SC progress for RISC-V ?
> > >
> > > "When LR/SC is used for memory locations marked RsrvNonEventual,
> > > software should provide alternative fall-back mechanisms used when
> > > lack of progress is detected."
> > >
> > > My reading of this is that if the example you tried stalls, then either
> > > the PMA is not RsrvEventual, and it is wrong to rely on ll/sc on this,
> > > or that the PMA is marked RsrvEventual but the implementation is
> > > buggy.
> >
> > Yes, PMA just defines physical memory region attributes, But in our
> > processor, when MMU is enabled (satp's value register > 2) in s-mode,
> > it will look at our custom PTE's attributes BIT(63) ref [1]:
> >
> > PTE format:
> > | 63 | 62 | 61 | 60 | 59 | 58-8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0
> > SO C B SH SE RSW D A G U X W R V
> > ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
> > BIT(63): SO - Strong Order
> > BIT(62): C - Cacheable
> > BIT(61): B - Bufferable
> > BIT(60): SH - Shareable
> > BIT(59): SE - Security
> >
> > So the memory also could be RsrvNone/RsrvEventual.
>
> I was not talking about RsrvNone, which would clearly mean that
> you cannot use lr/sc at all (trap would trap, right?), but "RsrvNonEventual",
> which would explain the behavior you described in an earlier reply:
>
> | u32 a = 0x55aa66bb;
> | u16 *ptr = &a;
> |
> | CPU0 CPU1
> | ========= =========
> | xchg16(ptr, new) while(1)
> | WRITE_ONCE(*(ptr + 1), x);
> |
> | When we use lr.w/sc.w implement xchg16, it'll cause CPU0 deadlock.
>
> As I understand, this example must not cause a deadlock on
> a compliant hardware implementation when the underlying memory
> has RsrvEventual behavior, but could deadlock in case of
> RsrvNonEventual
Thx for the nice explanation:
- RsrvNonEventual - depends on software fall-back mechanisms, and
just I'm worried about.
- RsrvEventual - HW would provide the eventual success guarantee.
>
> > [1] https://github.com/c-sky/csky-linux/commit/e837aad23148542771794d8a2fcc52afd0fcbf88
> >
> > >
> > > It also seems that the current "amoswap" based implementation
> > > would be reliable independent of RsrvEventual/RsrvNonEventual.
> >
> > Yes, the hardware implementation of AMO could be different from LR/SC.
> > AMO could use ACE snoop holding to lock the bus in hw coherency
> > design, but LR/SC uses an exclusive monitor without locking the bus.
> >
> > RISC-V hasn't CAS instructions, and it uses LR/SC for cmpxchg. I don't
> > think LR/SC would be slower than CAS, and CAS is just good for code
> > size.
>
> What I meant here is that the current spinlock uses a simple amoswap,
> which presumably does not suffer from the lack of forward process you
> described.
Does that mean we should prevent using LR/SC (if RsrvNonEventual)?
--
Best Regards
Guo Ren
ML: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-csky/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-31 4:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-27 18:06 [PATCH v4 0/4] riscv: Add qspinlock/qrwlock guoren
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] riscv: cmpxchg.h: Cleanup unused code guoren
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] riscv: cmpxchg.h: Merge macros guoren
2021-03-27 21:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-28 1:50 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32 guoren
2021-03-27 18:43 ` Waiman Long
2021-03-28 1:48 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 7:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 9:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-29 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 11:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 12:52 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 13:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-30 2:26 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 5:51 ` Anup Patel
2021-03-30 6:26 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 7:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-31 4:18 ` Guo Ren [this message]
2021-03-31 5:33 ` Paul Campbell
2021-04-05 16:12 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 6:44 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 7:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-29 11:19 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 11:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 12:01 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 12:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-30 3:13 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 4:54 ` Anup Patel
2021-03-30 6:27 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 8:31 ` David Laight
2021-03-30 14:09 ` Waiman Long
2021-03-31 14:47 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-05 16:45 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 16:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-30 22:35 ` Stafford Horne
2021-03-31 7:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-31 12:31 ` Stafford Horne
2021-03-31 15:10 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-06 8:51 ` Stafford Horne
2021-04-06 3:50 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-06 8:56 ` Stafford Horne
2021-04-07 8:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-04-07 11:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 11:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-04-07 12:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-05 16:40 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 15:22 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-06 7:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 9:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 14:29 ` Christoph Müllner
2021-04-07 14:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 15:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 16:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 15:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 16:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 16:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 19:50 ` Christoph Müllner
2021-04-06 17:24 ` Boqun Feng
2021-04-07 9:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 12:13 ` Anup Patel
2021-03-29 12:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] riscv: Convert custom spinlock/rwlock to generic qspinlock/qrwlock guoren
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