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* [PATCH 0/5] Add generic support for relaxed atomics
@ 2015-07-13 12:31 Will Deacon
  2015-07-13 12:31 ` Will Deacon
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From: Will Deacon @ 2015-07-13 12:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arch; +Cc: Waiman.Long, peterz, linux-kernel, paulmck, Will Deacon

Hello,

This patch series adds support for a family of relaxed atomics to the
kernel. More specifically:

  - acquire/release/relaxed flavours of xchg, cmpxchg and {add,sub}_return
  - atomic_read_acquire
  - atomic_set_release

This came out of a separate patch series porting the (barrier-heavy)
qrwlock code to arm64. Rather than have arch-specific hooks littered
around the place, it makes more sense to define a core set of relaxed
atomics that can be used regardless of architecture.

For now, the definitions simply take on the existing (i.e. full-barrier)
semantics, but there is a direct mapping onto arm64 and even architectures
with explicit memory barrier instructions (e.g. powerpc, arm) can benefit,
as they do from the existing smp_load_acquire/smp_store_release macros.

The final patch is a proof-of-concept port of the qrwlock over to the
new atomics. It's based on some of the pending patches from me and Waiman,
so it won't apply to mainline but I think it illustrates the usage well
enough.

All feedback welcome,

Will

--->8

Will Deacon (5):
  atomics: add acquire/release/relaxed variants of some atomic
    operations
  asm-generic: rework atomic-long.h to avoid bulk code duplication
  asm-generic: add relaxed/acquire/release variants for atomic_long_t
  lockref: remove homebrew cmpxchg64_relaxed macro definition
  locking/qrwlock: make use of acquire/release/relaxed atomics

 Documentation/atomic_ops.txt      |   4 +-
 include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h | 263 ++++++++++++++------------------------
 include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h     |  13 +-
 include/linux/atomic.h            | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/locking/qrwlock.c          |  12 +-
 lib/lockref.c                     |   8 --
 6 files changed, 248 insertions(+), 192 deletions(-)

-- 
2.1.4

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2015-07-14 10:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-14 10:32     ` Will Deacon
2015-07-14 10:58       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-14 11:08         ` Will Deacon
2015-07-14 11:08           ` Will Deacon
2015-07-14 11:24           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-14 11:31             ` Will Deacon
2015-07-14 11:38               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-14 11:38                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-14 15:55                 ` Will Deacon
2015-07-14 15:55                   ` Will Deacon
2015-07-13 12:31 ` [PATCH 2/5] asm-generic: rework atomic-long.h to avoid bulk code duplication Will Deacon
2015-07-13 12:31   ` Will Deacon
2015-07-13 12:31 ` [PATCH 3/5] asm-generic: add relaxed/acquire/release variants for atomic_long_t Will Deacon
2015-07-13 12:31   ` Will Deacon
2015-07-13 12:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] lockref: remove homebrew cmpxchg64_relaxed macro definition Will Deacon
2015-07-13 12:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] locking/qrwlock: make use of acquire/release/relaxed atomics Will Deacon
2015-07-13 12:31   ` Will Deacon

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