Re: [PATCH] cgroup: pids: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE for pids->limit operations

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 02:29:46AM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> > Hah, where is it saying that?
> 
> Isn't that what this says:
> 
> > Therefore, if you find yourself only using the Non-RMW operations of
> > atomic_t, you do not in fact need atomic_t at all and are doing it
> > wrong.
> 
> Doesn't using just atomic64_read() and atomic64_set() fall under "only
> using the non-RMW operations of atomic_t"? But yes, I agree that any
> locking is overkill.

Yeah, I mean, it's an overkill.  We can use seqlock or u64_stat here
but it doesn't matter that much.

> > > As for 64-bit on 32-bit machines -- that is a separate issue, but from
> > > [1] it seems to me like there are more problems that *_ONCE() fixes than
> > > just split reads and writes.
> > 
> > Your explanations are too wishy washy.  If you wanna fix it, please do
> > it correctly.  R/W ONCE isn't the right solution here.
> 
> Sure, I will switch it to use atomic64_read() and atomic64_set() instead
> if that's what you'd prefer. Though I will mention that on quite a few
> architectures atomic64_read() is defined as:
> 
>   #define atomic64_read(v)        READ_ONCE((v)->counter)

Yeah, on archs which don't have split access on 64bits.  On the ones
which do, it does something else.  The generic implementation is
straight-up locking, I think.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun