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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] printk-rb: add a new printk ringbuffer implementation
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 00:47:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190626224703.GL2490@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1df28x4.fsf@linutronix.de>

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:23:19AM +0200, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2019-06-18, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >> +
> >> +	if (unlikely(newest_id == EOL)) {
> >> +		/* no previous newest means we *are* the list, set oldest */
> >> +
> >> +		/*
> >> +		 * MB UNPAIRED
> >
> > That's a bug, MB must always be paired.
> 
> Well, it "pairs" with the smp_rmb() of the readers, but I didn't think
> that counts as a pair. That's why I wrote unpaired. The litmus test is:
> 
> P0(int *x, int *y)
> {
>         WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1);
>         smp_store_release(y, 1);
> }
> 
> P1(int *x, int *y)
> {
>         int rx;
>         int ry;
> 
>         ry = READ_ONCE(*y);
>         smp_rmb();
>         rx = READ_ONCE(*x);
> }
> 
> exists (1:rx=0 /\ 1:ry=1)
> 
> The readers rely on the store_releases "pairing" with the smp_rmb() so
> that the readers see things in a sane order.

That is certainly a valid pairing, see also the 'SMP BARRIER PAIRING'
section in memory-barriers.txt (I thought we had a table in there, but
apparently that never quite made it in).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-26 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-07 16:23 [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] printk: new ringbuffer implementation John Ogness
2019-06-07 16:23 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] printk-rb: add a new printk " John Ogness
2019-06-18  4:51   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-06-18 22:12     ` John Ogness
2019-06-25  6:45       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-06-25  7:15         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-06-25  8:44           ` John Ogness
2019-06-25  9:06             ` Petr Mladek
2019-06-25 10:03               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-06-25 12:03                 ` John Ogness
2019-06-26  2:08                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-06-26  7:16                     ` John Ogness
2019-06-26  7:45                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-06-26  7:47                       ` Petr Mladek
2019-06-26  7:59                         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-06-25  9:09             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-06-18 11:12   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-18 22:18     ` John Ogness
2019-06-18 11:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-18 22:30     ` John Ogness
2019-06-19 10:46       ` Andrea Parri
2019-06-20 22:50         ` John Ogness
2019-06-21 12:16           ` Andrea Parri
2019-06-19 11:08       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-18 11:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-20 22:23     ` John Ogness
2019-06-26 22:40       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-26 22:53         ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-28  9:50         ` John Ogness
2019-06-28 15:44           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-28 16:07             ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-01 10:39             ` John Ogness
2019-07-01 14:10               ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-01 14:11               ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-29 21:05           ` Andrea Parri
2019-06-30  2:03             ` John Ogness
2019-06-30 14:08               ` Andrea Parri
2019-07-02 14:13                 ` John Ogness
2019-06-26 22:47       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-06-21 14:05   ` Petr Mladek
2019-06-24  8:33     ` John Ogness
2019-06-24 14:09       ` Petr Mladek
2019-06-25 13:29         ` John Ogness
2019-06-26  8:29           ` Petr Mladek
2019-06-26  9:09             ` John Ogness
2019-06-26 21:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-26 21:43         ` John Ogness
2019-06-27  8:28           ` Petr Mladek
2019-07-04 10:33     ` [PATCH POC] printk_ringbuffer: Alternative implementation of lockless printk ringbuffer Petr Mladek
2019-07-04 14:59       ` John Ogness
2019-07-08 15:23         ` Petr Mladek
2019-07-09  1:34           ` John Ogness
2019-07-09  9:06             ` Petr Mladek
2019-07-09 10:21               ` John Ogness
2019-07-09 11:58                 ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-14  3:46                   ` John Ogness
2019-06-24 13:55   ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] printk-rb: add a new printk ringbuffer implementation John Ogness
2019-06-25  8:55   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-06-25  9:19     ` John Ogness
2019-06-07 16:23 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] printk-rb: add test module John Ogness
2019-06-17 21:09 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] printk: new ringbuffer implementation Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-18  7:15   ` Petr Mladek

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