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From: "Christoph Müllner" <christophm30@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.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>,  Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 21:50:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHB2gtRGMizmWsv+Quf1jA=mzj6-jD5Rgz-XX2jQuR4dn3oDgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YG3XDnNc+GaW1Tz4@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 6:00 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:29:12PM +0200, Christoph Müllner wrote:
> > RISC-V defines LR/SC loops consisting of up to 16 instructions as
> > constrained LR/SC loops.  Such constrained LR/SC loops provide the
> > required forward guarantees, that are expected (similar to what other
> > architectures, like AArch64, have).
>
> The text quoted by others didn't seem to say such a thing, but whatever.

The RISC-V unpriv spec is public can be found here:
https://riscv.org/technical/specifications/
Version 20191213 discusses LR/SC-loops in section 8.3 (page 51).
So in case you are interested in the exact wording, you can find it there.

> > What RISC-V does not have is sub-word atomics and if required, we
> > would have to implement them as LL/SC sequences. And yes, using atomic
> > instructions is preferred over using LL/SC,
>
> (psudo asm, can't be bothered to figure out the actual syntax)
>
>         # setup r_and_mask, r_or_mask
>
> .L1
>         LL r, [word]
>         AND r, r, r_and_mask
>         OR r, r, r_or_mask
>         SC r, [word]
>         JNE .L1

I fully agree with this.
I've implemented a patch for that two weeks ago using the following helper:

+/*
+ * Mask and set given bits at a given address atomically.
+ * The masked old value will be returned.
+ */
+static inline u32 atomic_mask_and_set(u32* p, u32 mask, u32 val)
+{
+       u32 ret, tmp;
+       __asm__ __volatile__ (
+               "0:     lr.w %0, %2\n"
+               "       and  %0, %0, %3\n"
+               "       or   %1, %0, %4\n"
+               "       sc.w %1, %1, %2\n"
+               "       bnez %1, 0b\n"
+               : "+&r"(ret), "=&r" (tmp), "+A"(*p)
+               : "r" (mask), "rJ"(val)
+               : "memory");
+       return ret;
+}

However, Guo pushed out a new patchset in between and I decided to not continue
my approach to not undermine his approach.

I will sync up with Guo to provide a common patchset.

Thanks,
Christoph

> is what you need for LL/SC based xchg16, that's less than 16
> instructions. If RISC-V guarantees fwd progress on that, good, write it
> like that and lets end this thread.
>
> The fact that this is apparently hard, is not good.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-07 19:51 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
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 [this message]
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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