Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API

From	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API
Date	2017-07-06 17:40 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:55:03AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Agreed on the indirection; it feels like this is something that should be in
> the vDSO, which could use the cmpxchg instruction if it's available, or
> otherwise just uses plain loads and stores.

Even that seems like a lot of indirection for something that is in
the critical fast path for synchronization.  I really can't understand
how a new ISA / ABI could even come up with an idea as stupid as making
essential synchronization primitives optional.

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RISC-V Linux Port v4 Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> - 2017-07-04 22:00 +0200
  Re: [patches] Re: [PATCH 1/9] RISC-V: Init and Halt Code Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> - 2017-07-04 23:20 +0200
    Re: [patches] Re: [PATCH 1/9] RISC-V: Init and Halt Code Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-07-05 08:50 +0200
  Re: [patches] [PATCH 1/9] RISC-V: Init and Halt Code Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> - 2017-07-05 00:00 +0200
    Re: [patches] [PATCH 1/9] RISC-V: Init and Halt Code Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> - 2017-07-07 00:40 +0200
      Re: [patches] [PATCH 1/9] RISC-V: Init and Halt Code Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> - 2017-07-07 15:10 +0200
        Re: [patches] [PATCH 1/9] RISC-V: Init and Halt Code Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> - 2017-07-10 22:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-07-05 10:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2017-07-06 06:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-07-06 09:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> - 2017-07-07 03:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2017-07-07 04:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> - 2017-07-10 22:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-07-07 10:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> - 2017-07-10 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> - 2017-07-05 12:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-07-06 04:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-07-06 11:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-07-06 17:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-07-06 17:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-07-11 15:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-07-11 16:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> - 2017-07-11 19:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> - 2017-07-11 19:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2017-07-06 05:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 8/9] RISC-V: User-facing API Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> - 2017-07-06 17:40 +0200
  Re: [patches] [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> - 2017-07-07 15:20 +0200
    Re: [patches] [PATCH 2/9] RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> - 2017-07-10 22:50 +0200

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