From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH] ARM64: cmpxchg.h: Clear the exclusive access bit on fail
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:08:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150227190800.GE9011@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJhHMCBwgi96jyAi0Sdi_tEephLjKuG2DQcWa=tv7d7aEbKuaA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 06:44:19PM +0000, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> > It's either badly formatted or I don't get it. Are the "stxr x1" and
> > "stxr x7" happening on the same CPU (P0)? If yes, that's badly written
> > code, not even architecturally compliant (you are not allowed other
> > memory accesses between ldxr and stxr).
>
> OK. Is that the same case with ldaxr (acquire) and stlxr (release)?
> AFAIK, memory accesses between acquire and release exclusive
> operations are allowed.
The restriction on memory accesses in the middle of a load-exclusive
store-exclusive sequence applies to all the load/store-exclusive
variants, including ldaxr and stlxr.
Thanks,
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-27 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-27 5:46 [RFC PATCH] ARM64: cmpxchg.h: Clear the exclusive access bit on fail Pranith Kumar
2015-02-27 10:06 ` Will Deacon
2015-02-27 18:25 ` Pranith Kumar
2015-02-27 18:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-02-27 18:44 ` Pranith Kumar
2015-02-27 19:08 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2015-02-27 19:15 ` Pranith Kumar
2015-02-27 19:33 ` Mark Rutland
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