[PATCH] arm64: barrier: implement wfe-base smp_cond_load_acquire

[will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 05:42:42PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 04:38:03PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > Is there any case where we wouldn't want the memory clobber?
> > 
> > I don't think you'd need it for cmpwait_relaxed, because the CPU could
> > reorder stuff anyway, so anything the compiler does is potentially futile.
> > So actually, I can respin this without the clobber. I'll simplify
> > the __CMPWAIT_CASE macro to drop the last two parameters as well.
> 
> In my previous patches I promoted cmpwait() as a cpu_relax()
> 'replacement'. Should we not retain the compiler barrier semantics
> because of that?

To be honest, it's never been clear to me what purpose the memory clobber
serves in cpu_relax().

> That is, anywhere you use this, you basically _have_ to reread memory,
> because the very fact that you return from this basically indicates its
> been changed.

Sure, but that re-read is likely to be done with an acquire. I think this
boils down to whether or not cmpwait_relaxed has any use-cases outside of
an acquire-based outer-loop like that in smp_cond_load_acquire.

Will