Re: [PATCH RESEND v7 6/6] arm64: futex: support futex with FEAT_LSUI

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 04:22:24PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 04:19:29PM +0100, Yeoreum Yun wrote:
> > +static __always_inline int
> > +__lsui_futex_atomic_eor(int oparg, u32 __user *uaddr, int *oval)
> > +{
> > +	unsigned int loops = LLSC_MAX_LOOPS;
> > +	int ret, oldval, tmp;
> > +
> > +	uaccess_ttbr0_enable();
> > +	/*
> > +	 * there are no ldteor/stteor instructions...
> > +	 */
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> Were these new instructions not added with futex in mind?

I guess it was _most_ of the futex.

> I wonder whether CAS would be better than exclusives for xor...

I was first thinking we could share some of the code with
__futex_cmpxchg() but...

> > +static __always_inline int
> > +__lsui_futex_cmpxchg(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 oldval, u32 newval, u32 *oval)
> > +{
> > +	int ret = 0;
> > +	unsigned int loops = LLSC_MAX_LOOPS;
> > +	u32 val, tmp;
> > +
> > +	uaccess_ttbr0_enable();
> > +	/*
> > +	 * cas{al}t doesn't support word size...
> > +	 */
> 
> What about just aligning down and doing a 64-bit cas in that case?

I think it gets more complicated. Here we get the oldval from the
caller, so no need to do a read. With CAS, we'd need to read the full
64-bit, replace half of it with oldval and newval just to be able to do
the operation. On top of this, we need to check which half of the 64-bit
value. I think it to hairy for little benefit.

-- 
Catalin