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From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
To: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Use arch_timer_read_counter to access stable counters
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 22:32:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8449908-1f8a-a10e-bfce-95bd7415e523@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cef220b8-f46d-0653-8249-a9d48b2efc48@arm.com>


Hi Valentin,

On 30/04/2019 17:39, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 30/04/2019 16:27, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> [...]
>>>> @@ -372,6 +392,7 @@ static u32 notrace sun50i_a64_read_cntv_tval_el0(void)
>>>>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(const struct arch_timer_erratum_workaround *, timer_unstable_counter_workaround);
>>>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(timer_unstable_counter_workaround);
>>>>  
>>>> +static atomic_t timer_unstable_counter_workaround_in_use = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
>>>
>>> Wouldn't make sense to READ_ONCE / WRITE_ONCE instead of using an atomic?
>>
>> I don't think *_ONCE says anything about the atomicity of the access. It
>> only instruct the compiler that this should only be accessed once, and
>> not reloaded/rewritten.
> 
> FWIW 7bd3e239d6c6 ("locking: Remove atomicy checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE")
> points this out.

Interesting, thanks for the pointer.

  -- Daniel


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-03 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-08 15:49 [PATCH 0/7] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Removing the static branch on errata handling Marc Zyngier
2019-04-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 1/7] ARM: vdso: Remove dependency with the arch_timer driver internals Marc Zyngier
2019-04-08 15:58   ` Mark Rutland
2019-04-15 10:46   ` Marc Zyngier
2019-04-30 14:23   ` Will Deacon
2019-04-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 2/7] watchdog/sbsa: Use arch_timer_read_counter instead of arch_counter_get_cntvct Marc Zyngier
2019-04-08 15:59   ` Mark Rutland
2019-04-08 18:07   ` Guenter Roeck
2019-04-09  7:43     ` Marc Zyngier
2019-04-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 3/7] arm64: " Marc Zyngier
2019-04-08 15:59   ` Mark Rutland
2019-04-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 4/7] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Direcly assign set_next_event workaround Marc Zyngier
2019-04-08 16:02   ` Mark Rutland
2019-04-11 17:17   ` Daniel Lezcano
2019-04-15 10:18     ` Marc Zyngier
2019-04-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 5/7] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Drop use of static key in arch_timer_reg_read_stable Marc Zyngier
2019-04-08 16:04   ` Mark Rutland
2019-04-15 11:04   ` Daniel Lezcano
2019-04-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 6/7] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Remove use of workaround static key Marc Zyngier
2019-04-08 16:05   ` Mark Rutland
2019-04-15 11:07   ` Daniel Lezcano
2019-04-08 15:49 ` [PATCH 7/7] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Use arch_timer_read_counter to access stable counters Marc Zyngier
2019-04-08 16:08   ` Mark Rutland
2019-04-15 12:16   ` Daniel Lezcano
2019-04-30 15:27     ` Marc Zyngier
2019-04-30 15:39       ` Valentin Schneider
2019-05-03 20:32         ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2019-05-03 20:31       ` Daniel Lezcano

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