From: davem@davemloft.net (David Miller)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: bpf: add BPF XADD instruction
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:01:47 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151111.140147.946865774411167562.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151111181132.GA90947@ast-mbp.thefacebook.com>
From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:11:33 -0800
> bpf_xadd was never meant to be __sync_fetch_and_add equivalent.
> From the day one it meant to be atomic_add() as kernel does it.
+1
> I did piggy back on __sync in the llvm backend because it was the quick
> and dirty way to move forward.
> In retrospect I should have introduced a clean intrinstic for that instead,
> but it's not too late to do it now. user space we can change at any time
> unlike kernel.
+1
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-11 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-10 22:41 [PATCH 0/2] arm64: bpf: add BPF_ST and BPF_XADD instructions support Yang Shi
2015-11-10 22:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm64: bpf: add 'store immediate' instruction Yang Shi
2015-11-11 2:45 ` Z Lim
2015-11-11 12:12 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-11 12:39 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-12 19:33 ` Shi, Yang
2015-11-13 3:45 ` Z Lim
2015-11-23 19:34 ` Shi, Yang
2015-11-10 22:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64: bpf: add BPF XADD instruction Yang Shi
2015-11-11 0:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-11-11 0:26 ` Shi, Yang
2015-11-11 0:42 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-11-11 2:52 ` Z Lim
2015-11-11 8:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-11 10:24 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-11 10:42 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-11-11 11:58 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-11 12:21 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-11-11 12:38 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-11 12:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 15:52 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-11-11 16:23 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-11 17:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-11-11 17:35 ` David Miller
2015-11-11 17:44 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-11 19:01 ` David Miller
2015-11-11 17:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 18:11 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-11-11 18:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 18:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 18:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 18:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 19:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-11-11 22:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 23:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-11-12 8:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 18:50 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-11-11 19:04 ` David Miller
2015-11-11 19:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 19:41 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-11-11 18:46 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-11 19:01 ` David Miller [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20151111.140147.946865774411167562.davem@davemloft.net \
--to=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).