From: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.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>,
Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 11:50:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJF2gTRxPMURTE3M5WMQ_0q1yZ6K8nraGsFjGLUmpG9nYS_hng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0hj2pYr-CuNJkjO==RafZ=J+6kCo4HTWEwvvRXPcngJA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 3:23 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:35 AM Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I just want to chime in here, there may be a better spot in the thread to
> > mention this but, for OpenRISC I did implement some generic 8/16-bit xchg code
> > which I have on my todo list somwhere to replace the other generic
> > implementations like that in mips.
> >
> > arch/openrisc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> >
> > The idea would be that architectures just implement these methods:
> >
> > long cmpxchg_u32(*ptr,old,new)
> > long xchg_u32(*ptr,val)
> >
> > Then the rest of the generic header would implement cmpxchg.
>
> I like the idea of generalizing it a little further. I'd suggest staying a
> little closer to the existing naming here though, as we already have
> cmpxchg() for the type-agnostic version, and cmpxchg64() for the
> fixed-length 64-bit version.
>
> I think a nice interface between architecture-specific and architecture
> independent code would be to have architectures provide
> arch_cmpxchg32()/arch_xchg32() as the most basic version, as well
> as arch_cmpxchg8()/arch_cmpxchg16()/arch_xchg8()/arch_xchg16()
> if they have instructions for those.
>
> The common code can then build cmpxchg16()/xchg16() on top of
> either the 16-bit or the 32-bit primitives, and build the cmpxchg()/xchg()
> wrapper around those (or alternatively we can decide to have them
> only deal with fixed-32-bit and long/pointer sized atomics).
I think these emulation codes are suitable for some architectures but not riscv.
We shouldn't export xchg16/cmpxchg16(emulated by lr.w/sc.w) in riscv,
We should forbid these sub-word atomic primitive and lets the
programmers consider their atomic design.
--
Best Regards
Guo Ren
ML: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-csky/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-06 3:50 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 [this message]
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
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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