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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, joel@joelfernandes.org,
	"Andrey Semashev" <andrey.semashev@gmail.com>,
	kernel@collabora.com, shuah@kernel.org,
	"Davidlohr Bueso" <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	"Peter Oskolkov" <posk@posk.io>,
	corbet@lwn.net, krisman@collabora.com, malteskarupke@fastmail.fm,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Darren Hart" <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	acme@kernel.org, "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"André Almeida" <andrealmeid@collabora.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	z.figura12@gmail.com, "Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pgriffais@valvesoftware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/15] Add futex2 syscalls
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 20:19:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s3k9q3a.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74c7f1c1-ca15-1e86-a988-a4d349ad16ef@linaro.org> (Adhemerval Zanella's message of "Tue, 8 Jun 2021 15:08:44 -0300")

* Adhemerval Zanella:

> Also currently we don't have a specific usage.  The proposed patch to
> add the 'pthread_mutex_lock_any' and 'pthreada_timedlock_any' [3] 
> also did not gave much detail in realword usages or how it can be
> leveraged.

The current rwlock implementation in glibc uses a torn 32-bit futex read
which is part of an atomically updated 64-bit word.  That's just really,
really ugly, and I suspect we could make that go away with futex2.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-08 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-03 19:59 [PATCH v4 00/15] Add futex2 syscalls André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 01/15] futex2: Implement wait and wake functions André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 02/15] futex2: Add support for shared futexes André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 03/15] futex2: Implement vectorized wait André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 04/15] futex2: Implement requeue operation André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 05/15] futex2: Implement support for different futex sizes André Almeida
2021-06-04  0:23   ` kernel test robot
2021-06-06 19:12   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2021-06-06 23:01     ` Andrey Semashev
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 06/15] futex2: Add compatibility entry point for x86_x32 ABI André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 07/15] docs: locking: futex2: Add documentation André Almeida
2021-06-06 19:23   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 08/15] selftests: futex2: Add wake/wait test André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 09/15] selftests: futex2: Add timeout test André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 10/15] selftests: futex2: Add wouldblock test André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 11/15] selftests: futex2: Add waitv test André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 12/15] selftests: futex2: Add requeue test André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 13/15] selftests: futex2: Add futex sizes test André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 14/15] perf bench: Add futex2 benchmark tests André Almeida
2021-06-03 19:59 ` [PATCH v4 15/15] kernel: Enable waitpid() for futex2 André Almeida
2021-06-04  4:51 ` [PATCH v4 00/15] Add futex2 syscalls Zebediah Figura
2021-06-04 17:04   ` André Almeida
2021-06-04 11:36 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-04 20:01   ` André Almeida
2021-06-05  1:09     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-05  8:56       ` Andrey Semashev
2021-06-06 11:57         ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-06 13:15           ` Andrey Semashev
2021-06-08  1:25             ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-08 11:03               ` Andrey Semashev
2021-06-08 11:13                 ` Greg KH
2021-06-08 11:44                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-08 14:31                     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2021-06-08 12:06                   ` Andrey Semashev
2021-06-08 12:33                     ` Greg KH
2021-06-08 12:35                     ` Greg KH
2021-06-08 13:18                       ` Andrey Semashev
2021-06-08 13:27                         ` Greg KH
2021-06-08 13:41                           ` Andrey Semashev
2021-06-08 17:06                         ` Zebediah Figura
2021-06-08 14:14                   ` André Almeida
2021-06-07 15:40       ` André Almeida
2021-06-08  1:31         ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-08  2:33         ` Davidlohr Bueso
2021-06-08  4:45           ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-08 12:26         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2021-06-08 14:23           ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-08 14:57             ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2021-06-08 15:04             ` André Almeida
2021-06-08 18:08             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-08 18:19               ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-06-08 18:22                 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-09 16:26             ` David Laight

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