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([2001:b07:6468:f312:c8dd:75d4:99ab:290a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a24sm6468394ejr.58.2021.04.17.07.51.58 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 17 Apr 2021 07:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] Rust support To: Peter Zijlstra , Wedson Almeida Filho Cc: ojeda@kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20210414184604.23473-1-ojeda@kernel.org> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 16:51:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 16/04/21 09:09, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Well, the obvious example would be seqlocks. C11 can't do them Sure it can. C11 requires annotating with (the equivalent of) READ_ONCE all reads of seqlock-protected fields, but the memory model supports seqlocks just fine. > Simlar thing for RCU; C11 can't optimally do that Technically if you know what you're doing (i.e. that you're not on Alpha) you can do RCU using a relaxed load followed by an atomic_signal_fence(memory_order_consume). Which I agree is horrible and not entirely within the standard, but it works in practice. The Linux implementation of memory barriers, atomic RMW primitives, load-acquire/store-release etc. is also completely outside the standard, so it's not much different and more portable. The only thing that I really, really miss when programming with C11 atomics is smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic(). Paolo