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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 5/6] MCS Lock: allow architectures to hook in to
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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:11:57 +0000
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:19:48PM +0000, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 04:08:31PM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> > +#ifndef arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended
> > +/*
> > + * Using smp_load_acquire() provides a memory barrier that ensures
> > + * subsequent operations happen after the lock is acquired.
> > + */
> > +#define arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(l)					\
> > +	while (!(smp_load_acquire(l))) {				\
> > +		arch_mutex_cpu_relax();					\
> > +	}
> > +#endif
> 
> I think that wants to be:
> 
> #define arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(l)				\
> do {								\
> 	while (!smp_load_acquire(l))				\
> 		arch_mutex_cpu_relax();				\
> } while (0)
> 
> So that we properly eat the ';' in: arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(l);.

Yeah, that's better.

Tim: are you happy making that change please?

Will

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