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Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE()

From Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
Date 2016-11-25 15:40 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 01:40:44PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 12:23:56PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Naming will be problematic; calling them ATOMIC_* makes tham sound like
> > they work on atomic_t. That and I have no idea how to ensure correct
> > usage tree-wide; I'm not sure if/how Coccinelle can help.
> > 
> > Peter, thoughts?
> 
> Something like so perhaps?

> /*
>  * Provide accessors for Single-Copy atomicy.
>  *
>  * That is, ensure that machine word sized loads/stores to naturally
>  * aligned variables are single instructions.

Minor nit: this sounds like we *only* support the machine word size,
whereas (excluding alpha IIRC) we can generally acccess power-of-two
sizes from byte up to that.

So perhaps:

	That is, ensure that loads/stores are made with single
	instructions, where the machine can perform a tear-free access
	of that size.

>  * By reason of not being able to use C11 atomic crud, use our beloved
>  * volatile qualifier. Since volatile tells the compiler the value can
>  * be changed behind its back, it must use Single-Copy atomic loads and
>  * stores to access them, otherwise it runs the risk of load/store
>  * tearing.
>  */
> 
> #define SINGLE_LOAD(x)						\
> {(								\
> 	compiletime_assert_atomic_type(typeof(x));		\
> 	WARN_SINGLE_COPY_ALIGNMENT(&(x));			\
> 	READ_ONCE(x);						\
> })
> 
> #define SINGLE_STORE(x, v)					\
> ({								\
> 	compiletime_assert_atomic_type(typeof(x));		\
> 	WARN_SINGLE_COPY_ALIGNMENT(&(x));			\
> 	WRITE_ONCE(x, v);					\
> })

Modulo your type comment, and mine above, this looks good to me.

Thanks,
Mark.

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[PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-24 11:30 +0100
  [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-24 11:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-24 12:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-24 12:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-25 03:50 +0100
  [PATCH 1/3] tools/virtio: fix READ_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-24 11:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools/virtio: fix READ_ONCE() Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-24 12:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools/virtio: fix READ_ONCE() Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-25 03:40 +0100
  [PATCH 3/3] tools/virtio: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in uaccess.h Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-24 11:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools/virtio: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in uaccess.h Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-24 12:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools/virtio: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in uaccess.h Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-25 03:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 21:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-25 12:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-25 12:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-25 13:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-25 13:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-25 13:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-11-25 16:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2016-11-25 16:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-25 17:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-25 17:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-25 17:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-25 18:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-25 18:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-25 18:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-25 19:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-11-25 22:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-11-25 22:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2016-11-25 18:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-25 18:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-25 19:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-25 19:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-25 19:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio/vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-25 15:40 +0100

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