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Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire()

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire()
Date 2015-12-03 22:20 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 09:26:27PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> The best we can do is hardcode a variable name; maybe something like:
> 
> #define smp_cond_acquire(ptr, expr) do {			\
> 	typeof(*ptr) val;					\
> 	while ((val = READ_ONCE(*ptr)), expr)			\
> 		cpu_relax();					\
> 	smp_rmb(); /* ctrl + rmb := acquire */			\
> } while (0)
> 
> Which would let us write:
> 
>   smp_cond_acquire(&lock->val.counter, !(val & _Q_LOCKED_PENDING_MASK));

So I'm thinking that might still be hard to use for you if the LDXR+WFE
has the regular LL/SC constraint of not allowing other loads in.
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[PATCH 0/4] scheduler ordering bits -v2 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 13:50 +0100
  [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 13:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2015-12-03 17:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 21:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 22:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2015-12-04 16:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-04 22:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-12-04 23:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-04 23:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-05 00:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2015-12-07 16:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2015-12-03 20:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 21:40 +0100

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