Re: [PATCH 5/5] IB/hfi1: Fix improper uses of smp_mb__before_atomic()

Andrea Parri
2019-05-14T14:48:29Z

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 08:32:52AM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> On 5/9/2019 5:12 PM, Andrea Parri wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 01:16:57AM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> >>Hi Mike,
> >>
> >>>>This barrier only applies to the read-modify-write operations; in
> >>>>particular, it does not apply to the atomic_read() primitive.
> >>>>
> >>>>Replace the barrier with an smp_mb().
> >>>
> >>>This is one of a couple of barrier issues that we are currently looking into.
> >>>
> >>>See:
> >>>
> >>>[PATCH for-next 6/9] IB/rdmavt: Add new completion inline
> >>>
> >>>We will take a look at this one as well.
> >>
> >>Thank you for the reference and for looking into this,
> >
> >So, I'm planning to just drop this patch; or can I do something to help?
> >
> >Please let me know.
>
> Mike was looking into this, and I've got a handful of patches from him to
> review. He's unavailable for a while but if it's not included in the patches
> I've got we'll get something out shortly. So yes I think we can hold off on
> this patch for now. Thanks.

Thank you for the confirmation, Dennis. I'll hold off on this one.

Andrea