From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
LKMM Maintainers -- Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>,
Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: atomic_t.txt: Explain ordering provided by smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:24:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190429092430.GF26546@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190423133010.GK3923@linux.ibm.com>
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 06:30:10AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 02:32:09PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 01:54:40AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > And lock acquisition??? acm_read_bulk_callback().
> >
> > I think it goes with the set_bit() earlier, but what do I know.
>
> Quite possibly! In that case it should be smp_mb__after_atomic(),
> and it would be nice if it immediately followed the set_bit().
I noticed this one last week as well. The set_bit() had been incorrectly
moved and without noticing the smp_mb__before_atomic(). I've submitted a
patch to restore it and to fix a related issue to due missing barriers:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425160540.10036-5-johan@kernel.org
Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-29 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-19 17:21 [PATCH] Documentation: atomic_t.txt: Explain ordering provided by smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() Alan Stern
2019-04-19 17:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-19 18:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-19 18:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-20 0:26 ` Nicholas Piggin
2019-04-20 8:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-23 12:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-23 13:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-23 13:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-23 20:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-23 20:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-24 8:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-24 8:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-23 12:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-23 13:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-23 13:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-23 20:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-27 8:17 ` Andrea Parri
2019-04-27 8:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-29 9:24 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2019-04-29 14:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
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