Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations

From	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations
Date	2017-03-24 12:00 +0100
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* Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:

> > Are just utterly disgusting that turn perfectly readable code into an 
> > unreadable, unmaintainable mess.
> >
> > You need to find some better, cleaner solution please, or convince me that no 
> > such solution is possible. NAK for the time being.
> 
> Well, I can just write all functions as is. Does it better confirm to kernel 
> style?

I think writing the prototypes out as-is, properly organized, beats any of these 
macro based solutions.

> [...] I've just looked at the x86 atomic.h and it uses macros for similar 
> purpose (ATOMIC_OP/ATOMIC_FETCH_OP), so I thought that must be idiomatic kernel 
> style...

Mind fixing those too while at it?

And please squash any bug fixes and re-send a clean series against latest upstream 
or so.

Thanks,

	Ingo

Thread

[PATCH 0/3] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-14 20:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-03-20 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-03-21 11:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-21 19:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-21 22:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-22 11:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-22 12:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-22 13:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-22 13:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-03-24 08:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-24 08:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-24 09:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-03-24 12:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] asm-generic, x86: wrap atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-24 13:50 +0100

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