From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
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Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>,
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Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops: add _local bitops
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 23:12:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120509201223.GB22743@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAACF1C.2060504@zytor.com>
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:10:04PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 01:07 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > In practice ATM any of the above will work. We probably don't even need
> > to add barrier() calls since what we do afterwards is apic access which
> > has an optimization barrier anyway. But I'm fine with adding them in
> > there just in case if that's what people want.
> >
>
> If you have the optimization barrier anyway, then I'd be fine with you
> just using __test_and_clear_bit() and add to a comment in
> arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h that KVM needs it to be locally atomic.
>
> -hpa
Sounds good. Avi?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-09 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-09 13:45 [PATCH] bitops: add _local bitops Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 14:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 15:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 15:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 15:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 15:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 16:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 16:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 16:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 16:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 14:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-09 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-09 19:19 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-09 19:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 20:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-09 20:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-09 20:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2012-05-10 9:26 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-10 23:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-10 17:38 ` Rob Landley
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