From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, paulmck <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
j alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
luc maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>, akiyks <akiyks@gmail.com>,
linux-toolchains <linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] LKMM: Add ctrl_dep() macro for control dependency
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 16:02:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y271yo4l.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgexLqNnngLPts=wXrRcoP_XHO03iPJbsAg8HYuJbbAvw@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri, 1 Oct 2021 09:35:47 -0700")
* Linus Torvalds:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 9:26 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Will any conditional branch do, or is it necessary that it depends in
>> some way on the data read?
>
> The condition needs to be dependent on the read.
>
> (Easy way to see it: if the read isn't related to the conditional or
> write data/address, the read could just be delayed to after the
> condition and the store had been done).
That entirely depends on how the hardware is specified to work. And
the hardware could recognize certain patterns as always producing the
same condition codes, e.g., AND with zero. Do such tests still count?
It depends on what the specification says.
What I really dislike about this: Operators like & and < now have side
effects, and is no longer possible to reason about arithmetic
expressions in isolation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-10 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-28 21:15 [RFC PATCH] LKMM: Add ctrl_dep() macro for control dependency Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-09-29 12:06 ` Marco Elver
2021-10-01 15:45 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-01 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-10-01 17:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-01 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-29 12:28 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-29 17:41 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-09-29 19:46 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-01 16:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-01 16:26 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-01 16:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-10-10 14:02 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-10-14 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-10-14 2:14 ` Alan Stern
2021-10-14 16:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-10-14 15:58 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-14 16:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-10-14 18:19 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-14 21:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-10-14 22:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-30 13:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-09-29 14:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-29 14:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-29 19:50 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-09-29 20:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-09-29 19:27 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-09-29 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-29 21:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-09-29 23:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-10-01 15:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-01 22:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-10-01 19:10 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-01 22:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-10-02 14:29 ` Alan Stern
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