Re: [PATCH] Fix the x86 specializations of atomic_[set|clear]_mask

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:49:43PM -0400, Patrick Palka wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2014 4:02 AM, "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 04:38:01PM -0400, Patrick Palka wrote:
> > > This patch fixes a number of issues with these specializations:
> > >
> > >   1. The memory operand inside the asm specification is erroneously
> > >   declared read-only instead of read-write.
> > >
> > >   2. There is no reason to require the 1st operand of andl/orl to be
> > >   inside a register; the 1st operand could also be an immediate operand.
> > >   So change its specification from "r" to "ir".
> > >
> > >   3. Since addr is supposed to be an atomic_t *, the memory operand
> > >   should be addr->counter and not *addr.
> > >
> > >   4. These specializations should be inline functions instead of macros.
> > >
> > >   5. Finally, the "memory" clobbers are unnecessary, so they should be
> > >   removed.  (This is in line with the other atomic functions such as
> > >   atomic_add and atomic_sub, the likes of which do not have a "memory"
> > >   clobber.)
> >
> > No real problem with this, but I'm going to kill off these functions
> > when I get a little time :)
> 
> Hmm why's that?

because they're odd (inconsistent with the rest of the atomic
interfaces) and not implemented by all archs.

See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/6/196

3.18 will include up to 4/5 of that series and when I get a spare moment
I need cleanup/post the next arch sweep that will get us that 5/5 thing.