From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573BAC43331 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5092084F for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726960AbfKKIKL (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Nov 2019 03:10:11 -0500 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:16456 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726768AbfKKIKK (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Nov 2019 03:10:10 -0500 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098404.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.27/8.16.0.27) with SMTP id xAB89BCL013966 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 03:10:09 -0500 Received: from e06smtp04.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp04.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.100]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2w7217umup-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 03:10:09 -0500 Received: from localhost by e06smtp04.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! 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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:10:02 -0000 Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.60]) by b06cxnps4076.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id xAB8A1bI42205296 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:10:01 GMT Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184CC42049; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:10:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 807704203F; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:10:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from oc7455500831.ibm.com (unknown [9.152.224.123]) by d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:10:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] compiler.h: Split {READ,WRITE}_ONCE definitions out into rwonce.h To: Arnd Bergmann , Will Deacon Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Yunjae Lee , SeongJae Park , "Paul E. 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Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Joe Perches , Boqun Feng , alpha , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org References: <20191108170120.22331-1-will@kernel.org> <20191108170120.22331-2-will@kernel.org> From: Christian Borntraeger Autocrypt: addr=borntraeger@de.ibm.com; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsFNBE6cPPgBEAC2VpALY0UJjGmgAmavkL/iAdqul2/F9ONz42K6NrwmT+SI9CylKHIX+fdf J34pLNJDmDVEdeb+brtpwC9JEZOLVE0nb+SR83CsAINJYKG3V1b3Kfs0hydseYKsBYqJTN2j CmUXDYq9J7uOyQQ7TNVoQejmpp5ifR4EzwIFfmYDekxRVZDJygD0wL/EzUr8Je3/j548NLyL 4Uhv6CIPf3TY3/aLVKXdxz/ntbLgMcfZsDoHgDk3lY3r1iwbWwEM2+eYRdSZaR4VD+JRD7p8 0FBadNwWnBce1fmQp3EklodGi5y7TNZ/CKdJ+jRPAAnw7SINhSd7PhJMruDAJaUlbYaIm23A +82g+IGe4z9tRGQ9TAflezVMhT5J3ccu6cpIjjvwDlbxucSmtVi5VtPAMTLmfjYp7VY2Tgr+ T92v7+V96jAfE3Zy2nq52e8RDdUo/F6faxcumdl+aLhhKLXgrozpoe2nL0Nyc2uqFjkjwXXI OBQiaqGeWtxeKJP+O8MIpjyGuHUGzvjNx5S/592TQO3phpT5IFWfMgbu4OreZ9yekDhf7Cvn /fkYsiLDz9W6Clihd/xlpm79+jlhm4E3xBPiQOPCZowmHjx57mXVAypOP2Eu+i2nyQrkapaY IdisDQfWPdNeHNOiPnPS3+GhVlPcqSJAIWnuO7Ofw1ZVOyg/jwARAQABzUNDaHJpc3RpYW4g Qm9ybnRyYWVnZXIgKDJuZCBJQk0gYWRkcmVzcykgPGJvcm50cmFlZ2VyQGxpbnV4LmlibS5j b20+wsF5BBMBAgAjBQJdP/hMAhsDBwsJCAcDAgEGFQgCCQoLBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQEXu8 gLWmHHy/pA/+JHjpEnd01A0CCyfVnb5fmcOlQ0LdmoKWLWPvU840q65HycCBFTt6V62cDljB kXFFxMNA4y/2wqU0H5/CiL963y3gWIiJsZa4ent+KrHl5GK1nIgbbesfJyA7JqlB0w/E/SuY NRQwIWOo/uEvOgXnk/7+rtvBzNaPGoGiiV1LZzeaxBVWrqLtmdi1iulW/0X/AlQPuF9dD1Px hx+0mPjZ8ClLpdSp5d0yfpwgHtM1B7KMuQPQZGFKMXXTUd3ceBUGGczsgIMipZWJukqMJiJj QIMH0IN7XYErEnhf0GCxJ3xAn/J7iFpPFv8sFZTvukntJXSUssONnwiKuld6ttUaFhSuSoQg OFYR5v7pOfinM0FcScPKTkrRsB5iUvpdthLq5qgwdQjmyINt3cb+5aSvBX2nNN135oGOtlb5 tf4dh00kUR8XFHRrFxXx4Dbaw4PKgV3QLIHKEENlqnthH5t0tahDygQPnSucuXbVQEcDZaL9 WgJqlRAAj0pG8M6JNU5+2ftTFXoTcoIUbb0KTOibaO9zHVeGegwAvPLLNlKHiHXcgLX1tkjC DrvE2Z0e2/4q7wgZgn1kbvz7ZHQZB76OM2mjkFu7QNHlRJ2VXJA8tMXyTgBX6kq1cYMmd/Hl OhFrAU3QO1SjCsXA2CDk9MM1471mYB3CTXQuKzXckJnxHkHOwU0ETpw8+AEQAJjyNXvMQdJN t07BIPDtbAQk15FfB0hKuyZVs+0lsjPKBZCamAAexNRk11eVGXK/YrqwjChkk60rt3q5i42u PpNMO9aS8cLPOfVft89Y654Qd3Rs1WRFIQq9xLjdLfHh0i0jMq5Ty+aiddSXpZ7oU6E+ud+X Czs3k5RAnOdW6eV3+v10sUjEGiFNZwzN9Udd6PfKET0J70qjnpY3NuWn5Sp1ZEn6lkq2Zm+G 9G3FlBRVClT30OWeiRHCYB6e6j1x1u/rSU4JiNYjPwSJA8EPKnt1s/Eeq37qXXvk+9DYiHdT PcOa3aNCSbIygD3jyjkg6EV9ZLHibE2R/PMMid9FrqhKh/cwcYn9FrT0FE48/2IBW5mfDpAd YvpawQlRz3XJr2rYZJwMUm1y+49+1ZmDclaF3s9dcz2JvuywNq78z/VsUfGz4Sbxy4ShpNpG REojRcz/xOK+FqNuBk+HoWKw6OxgRzfNleDvScVmbY6cQQZfGx/T7xlgZjl5Mu/2z+ofeoxb vWWM1YCJAT91GFvj29Wvm8OAPN/+SJj8LQazd9uGzVMTz6lFjVtH7YkeW/NZrP6znAwv5P1a DdQfiB5F63AX++NlTiyA+GD/ggfRl68LheSskOcxDwgI5TqmaKtX1/8RkrLpnzO3evzkfJb1 D5qh3wM1t7PZ+JWTluSX8W25ABEBAAHCwV8EGAECAAkFAk6cPPgCGwwACgkQEXu8gLWmHHz8 2w//VjRlX+tKF3szc0lQi4X0t+pf88uIsvR/a1GRZpppQbn1jgE44hgF559K6/yYemcvTR7r 6Xt7cjWGS4wfaR0+pkWV+2dbw8Xi4DI07/fN00NoVEpYUUnOnupBgychtVpxkGqsplJZQpng v6fauZtyEcUK3dLJH3TdVQDLbUcL4qZpzHbsuUnTWsmNmG4Vi0NsEt1xyd/Wuw+0kM/oFEH1 4BN6X9xZcG8GYUbVUd8+bmio8ao8m0tzo4pseDZFo4ncDmlFWU6hHnAVfkAs4tqA6/fl7RLN JuWBiOL/mP5B6HDQT9JsnaRdzqF73FnU2+WrZPjinHPLeE74istVgjbowvsgUqtzjPIG5pOj cAsKoR0M1womzJVRfYauWhYiW/KeECklci4TPBDNx7YhahSUlexfoftltJA8swRshNA/M90/ i9zDo9ySSZHwsGxG06ZOH5/MzG6HpLja7g8NTgA0TD5YaFm/oOnsQVsf2DeAGPS2xNirmknD jaqYefx7yQ7FJXXETd2uVURiDeNEFhVZWb5CiBJM5c6qQMhmkS4VyT7/+raaEGgkEKEgHOWf ZDP8BHfXtszHqI3Fo1F4IKFo/AP8GOFFxMRgbvlAs8z/+rEEaQYjxYJqj08raw6P4LFBqozr nS4h0HDFPrrp1C2EMVYIQrMokWvlFZbCpsdYbBI= Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:10:00 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 19111108-0016-0000-0000-000002C2960C X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 19111108-0017-0000-0000-00003324241A Message-Id: <93f80017-d65e-7c3a-29b0-d9a568d08f58@de.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2019-11-11_02:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1910280000 definitions=main-1911110079 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08.11.19 20:57, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 6:01 PM Will Deacon wrote: >> >> In preparation for allowing architectures to define their own >> implementation of the 'READ_ONCE()' macro, move the generic >> '{READ,WRITE}_ONCE()' definitions out of the unwieldy 'linux/compiler.h' >> and into a new 'rwonce.h' header under 'asm-generic'. > > Adding Christian Bornträger to Cc, he originally added the > READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() > code. > > I wonder if it would be appropriate now to revert back to a much simpler version > of these helpers for any modern compiler. As I understand, only gcc-4.6 and > gcc4.7 actually need the song-and-dance version with the union and switch/case, > while for others, we can might be able back to a macro doing a volatile access. As far as I know this particular issue with volatile access on aggregate types was fixed in gcc 4.8. On the other hand we know that the current construct will work on all compilers. Not so sure about the orignal ACCESS_ONCE implementation.