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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines
Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 11:32:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180505093237.GD12217@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+Z1WKxdkodRBc5PzfyQQmfJCJ3n1JyQc-+WCkqGZeg5Wg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 11:05:51AM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > And I seriously hate this one:
> >
> >   ba1c9f83f633 ("locking/atomic/x86: Un-macro-ify atomic ops implementation")
> >
> > and will likely undo that the moment I need to change anything there.

> That was asked by Ingo:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kasan-dev/3sNHjjb4GCI/Xz1uVWaaAAAJ
> 
> I think in the end all of current options suck in one way or another,
> so we are just going in circles.

Yeah, and I disagree with him, but didn't have the energy to fight at
that time (and still don't really, I'm just complaining).

> We either need something different (e.g. codegen), or settle on one
> option for doing it.

Codegen I think is the only sensible option at this point for all the
wrappers. The existing ones (without the annotation muck) were already
cumbersome, the annotation stuff just makes it completely horrid.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines
Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 11:32:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180505093237.GD12217@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+Z1WKxdkodRBc5PzfyQQmfJCJ3n1JyQc-+WCkqGZeg5Wg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 11:05:51AM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > And I seriously hate this one:
> >
> >   ba1c9f83f633 ("locking/atomic/x86: Un-macro-ify atomic ops implementation")
> >
> > and will likely undo that the moment I need to change anything there.

> That was asked by Ingo:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kasan-dev/3sNHjjb4GCI/Xz1uVWaaAAAJ
> 
> I think in the end all of current options suck in one way or another,
> so we are just going in circles.

Yeah, and I disagree with him, but didn't have the energy to fight at
that time (and still don't really, I'm just complaining).

> We either need something different (e.g. codegen), or settle on one
> option for doing it.

Codegen I think is the only sensible option at this point for all the
wrappers. The existing ones (without the annotation muck) were already
cumbersome, the annotation stuff just makes it completely horrid.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-05  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-04 17:39 [PATCH 0/6] arm64: add instrumented atomics Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 1/6] locking/atomic, asm-generic: instrument ordering variants Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39   ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 18:01   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-04 18:01     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-04 18:09     ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 18:09       ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 18:24       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-04 18:24         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05  9:12         ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-05  9:12           ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-05  8:11       ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  8:11         ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  8:36         ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Simplify the op definitions in atomic.h some more Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  8:36           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  8:54           ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Combine the atomic_andnot() and atomic64_andnot() API definitions Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  8:54             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 12:15             ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 14:15             ` [PATCH] " Andrea Parri
2018-05-06 14:15               ` Andrea Parri
2018-05-06 12:14           ` [tip:locking/core] locking/atomics: Simplify the op definitions in atomic.h some more tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2018-05-09  7:33             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-09 13:03               ` Will Deacon
2018-05-15  8:54                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-15  8:35               ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-15 11:41                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 12:13                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 15:43                   ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-15 17:10                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 17:53                       ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-15 18:11                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 18:15                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 18:52                             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-15 19:39                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-21 17:12                           ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-06 14:12           ` [PATCH] " Andrea Parri
2018-05-06 14:12             ` Andrea Parri
2018-05-06 14:57             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 14:57               ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-07  9:54               ` Andrea Parri
2018-05-07  9:54                 ` Andrea Parri
2018-05-18 18:43               ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-05-18 18:43                 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-05-05  8:47         ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05  8:47           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05  9:04           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  9:04             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  9:24             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05  9:24               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05  9:38             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  9:38               ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 10:00               ` [RFC PATCH] locking/atomics/powerpc: Introduce optimized cmpxchg_release() family of APIs for PowerPC Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 10:00                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 10:26                 ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-05 10:26                   ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-06  1:56                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-05-06  1:56                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-05-05 10:16               ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines Boqun Feng
2018-05-05 10:16                 ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-05 10:35                 ` [RFC PATCH] locking/atomics/powerpc: Clarify why the cmpxchg_relaxed() family of APIs falls back to full cmpxchg() Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 10:35                   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 11:28                   ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-05 11:28                     ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-05 13:27                     ` [PATCH] locking/atomics/powerpc: Move cmpxchg helpers to asm/cmpxchg.h and define the full set of cmpxchg APIs Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 13:27                       ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 14:03                       ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-05 14:03                         ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-06 12:11                         ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 12:11                           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-07  1:04                           ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-07  1:04                             ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-07  6:50                             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-07  6:50                               ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 12:13                     ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Boqun Feng
2018-05-07 13:31                       ` [PATCH v2] " Boqun Feng
2018-05-07 13:31                         ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-05  9:05           ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines Dmitry Vyukov
2018-05-05  9:05             ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-05-05  9:32             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-05-05  9:32               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-07  6:43               ` [RFC PATCH] locking/atomics/x86/64: Clean up and fix details of <asm/atomic64_64.h> Ingo Molnar
2018-05-07  6:43                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  9:09           ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  9:09             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  9:29             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05  9:29               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05 10:48               ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Shorten the __atomic_op() defines to __op() Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 10:48                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 10:59                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 10:59                   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 12:15                 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 12:14         ` [tip:locking/core] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] locking/atomic, asm-generic: instrument atomic*andnot*() Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39   ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm64: use <linux/atomic.h> for cmpxchg Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39   ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm64: fix assembly constraints " Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39   ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] arm64: use instrumented atomics Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39   ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] arm64: instrument smp_{load_acquire,store_release} Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39   ` Mark Rutland

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