From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
"linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Miroslav Franc <mfranc@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 20:17:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140908201722.66bc6492@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540DEE6C.2060904@zytor.com>
> > I think the whole "removing Alpha EV5" support is basically bonkers. Just
> > use set_bit in the tty layer. Alpha will continue to work as well as it
> > always has done and you won't design out support for any future processor
> > that turns out not to do byte aligned stores.
> >
> > Alan
> >
>
> Is *that* what we are talking about? I was added to this conversation
> in the middle where it had already generalized, so I had no idea.
>
> -hpa
Yes there are some flags in the tty layer that are vulnerable to this
(although they've been vulnerable to it and missing a lock since last
century with no known ill effects).
It's not as if this is causing any work to anyone beyond using the
standard API, no API needs to change.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-12 18:13 bit fields && data tearing Oleg Nesterov
2014-07-12 20:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-07-12 23:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-13 12:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-07-13 13:15 ` Peter Hurley
2014-07-13 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-15 13:54 ` Peter Hurley
2014-07-15 15:02 ` Richard Henderson
2014-09-03 22:51 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-03 23:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-09-04 8:43 ` David Laight
2014-09-04 9:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-09-04 22:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 0:59 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 15:31 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 15:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 17:52 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-08 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 19:17 ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2014-09-09 11:18 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-08 22:47 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-09 1:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-09 11:14 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-11 10:04 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-11 16:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-11 20:01 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-14 23:24 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-22 19:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-23 18:19 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-23 18:39 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-08 18:13 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-10 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-10 21:10 ` Rob Landley
2014-09-05 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 8:16 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 18:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 18:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 19:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-05 20:01 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 20:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-05 20:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 20:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 18:50 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 19:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 19:24 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 20:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 19:38 ` Marc Gauthier
2014-09-05 20:14 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 20:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 20:42 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 20:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-05 21:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:39 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 21:12 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 21:27 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 20:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-04 8:57 ` Mikael Pettersson
2014-09-04 9:09 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-09-04 12:24 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-04 12:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-09-04 16:50 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-04 19:42 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-04 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 0:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 1:57 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 2:11 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-05 2:47 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 4:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 8:30 ` David Laight
2014-09-05 12:31 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 12:37 ` David Laight
2014-09-05 16:17 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-25 16:12 ` Pavel Machek
2014-09-07 5:07 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-07 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-07 19:04 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-07 20:41 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-08 5:50 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-08 20:45 ` Chris Metcalf
2014-09-08 22:43 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-09 2:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-09 8:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-08 23:30 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-09 2:56 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-09 3:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-09 4:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-09 10:40 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 21:48 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-10 23:50 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-11 10:23 ` Will Deacon
2014-09-07 23:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-07 23:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-07 23:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-07 23:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 5:56 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-08 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 19:09 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-08 19:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 19:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 22:39 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-09 2:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
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