From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.ibm.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio-ccw: fix virtio_set_ind_atomic
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:33:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da550b98-a555-0e1c-6b5f-90da88100b7f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200618015641.1db429fc.pasic@linux.ibm.com>
On 18.06.20 01:56, Halil Pasic wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 08:33:33 +0200
> Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>> #define atomic_cmpxchg__nocheck(ptr, old, new) ({ \
>>>
>>> typeof_strip_qual(*ptr) _old = (old); \
>>>
>>> (void)__atomic_compare_exchange_n(ptr, &_old, new, false, \
>>>
>>> __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST); \
>>>
>>> _old; \
>>>
>>> })
>>>
>>> ind_old is copied into _old in the macro. Instead of doing the copy from the
>>> register the compiler reloads the value from memory. The result is that _old
>>> and ind_old end up having different values. _old in r1 with the bits set
>>> already and ind_old in r10 with the bits cleared. _old gets updated by CS
>>> and matches ind_old afterwards - both with the bits being 0. So the !=
>>> compare is false and the loop is left without having set any bits.
>>>
>>>
>>> Paolo (to),
>>> I am asking myself if it would be safer to add a barrier or something like
>>> this in the macros in include/qemu/atomic.h.
>>
>> I'm also wondering whether this has been seen on other architectures as
>> well? There are also some callers in non-s390x code, and dealing with
>> this in common code would catch them as well.
>
> Quite a bunch of users use something like old = atomic_read(..), where
> atomic_read is documented as in docs/devel/atomics.rst:
> - ``atomic_read()`` and ``atomic_set()``; these prevent the compiler from
> optimizing accesses out of existence and creating unsolicited
> accesses, but do not otherwise impose any ordering on loads and
> stores: both the compiler and the processor are free to reorder
> them.
>
> Maybe I should have used that instead of volatile, but my problem was
> that I didn't fully understand what atomic_read() does, and if it does
> more than we need. I found the documentation just now.
IIRC, atomic_read() is the right way of doing it, at least in the
kernel. I use such a loop in QEMU in
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610115419.51688-2-david@redhat.com
But reading docs/devel/atomics.rst:"Comparison with Linux kernel
primitives" I do wonder if that is sufficient.
Any experts around?
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-19 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-16 4:50 [PATCH 0/2] two atomic_cmpxchg() related fixes Halil Pasic
2020-06-16 4:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio-ccw: fix virtio_set_ind_atomic Halil Pasic
2020-06-16 5:58 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-06-16 6:33 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-06-16 6:45 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-06-19 7:14 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-06-17 23:56 ` Halil Pasic
2020-06-19 7:33 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2020-06-19 8:17 ` Halil Pasic
2020-06-16 9:31 ` Halil Pasic
2020-07-01 13:13 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-04 18:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-07-06 5:44 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-06 11:19 ` Halil Pasic
2020-06-16 4:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] s390x/pci: fix set_ind_atomic Halil Pasic
2020-07-01 13:14 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-01 12:01 ` [PATCH 0/2] two atomic_cmpxchg() related fixes Cornelia Huck
2020-07-01 12:06 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-01 13:10 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-03 13:37 ` Halil Pasic
2020-07-03 14:03 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-02 11:18 ` Cornelia Huck
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