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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	LKMM Maintainers -- Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
	Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	dlustig@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tools/memory-model: Add write ordering by release-acquire and by locks
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 09:58:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180705165848.GR3593@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180705153906.GA2345@andrea>

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 05:39:06PM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > > At any rate, it looks like instead of strengthening the relation, I
> > > should write a patch that removes it entirely.  I also will add new,
> > > stronger relations for use with locking, essentially making spin_lock
> > > and spin_unlock be RCsc.
> > 
> > Only in the presence of smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() or
> > smp_mb__after_spinlock(), correct?  Or am I confused about RCsc?
> 
> There are at least two definitions of RCsc: one as documented in the header
> comment for smp_mb__after_spinlock() or rather in the patch under review...,
> one as processor architects used to intend it. ;-)

Searching isn't working for me all that well this morning, so could you
please send me a pointer to that patch?

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-05 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-21 17:27 [PATCH 2/2] tools/memory-model: Add write ordering by release-acquire and by locks Alan Stern
2018-06-21 18:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-22  3:34   ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-06-22  8:08     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-22  8:09 ` Will Deacon
2018-06-22  9:55   ` Will Deacon
2018-06-22 10:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-22 10:38       ` Will Deacon
2018-06-22 11:25         ` Andrea Parri
2018-06-22 16:40       ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-06-22 18:09   ` Alan Stern
2018-06-22 18:30     ` Will Deacon
2018-06-22 19:11       ` Alan Stern
2018-06-22 20:53         ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-04 11:53         ` Will Deacon
2018-06-25  8:19       ` Andrea Parri
2018-07-03 17:28         ` Alan Stern
2018-07-04 11:28           ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-04 12:13             ` Will Deacon
2018-07-05 14:23               ` Alan Stern
2018-07-05 15:31                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-04 12:11           ` Will Deacon
2018-07-05 14:00             ` Andrea Parri
2018-07-05 14:44               ` Will Deacon
2018-07-05 15:16                 ` Daniel Lustig
2018-07-05 15:35                   ` Daniel Lustig
2018-07-05 14:21             ` Alan Stern
2018-07-05 14:46               ` Will Deacon
2018-07-05 14:57                 ` Alan Stern
2018-07-05 15:15                   ` Will Deacon
2018-07-05 15:09               ` Andrea Parri
2018-07-06 20:37                 ` Alan Stern
2018-07-06 21:10                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-09 16:52                     ` Will Deacon
2018-07-09 17:29                       ` Daniel Lustig
2018-07-09 19:18                         ` Alan Stern
2018-07-05 15:31               ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-05 15:39                 ` Andrea Parri
2018-07-05 16:58                   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2018-07-05 17:06                     ` Andrea Parri
2018-07-05 15:44                 ` Daniel Lustig
2018-07-05 16:22                   ` Will Deacon
2018-07-05 16:56                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-05 18:12                       ` Daniel Lustig
2018-07-05 18:38                         ` Andrea Parri
2018-07-05 18:44                           ` Andrea Parri
2018-07-05 23:32                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-05 23:31                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-06  9:25                       ` Will Deacon
2018-07-06 14:14                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-06-25  7:32     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-25  8:29       ` Andrea Parri
2018-06-25  9:06         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-22  9:06 ` Andrea Parri
2018-06-22 19:23   ` Alan Stern

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