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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>,
	mingo@redhat.com, will@kernel.org, longman@redhat.com,
	boqun.feng@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] seqlock: Use WRITE_ONCE() when updating sequence
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:53:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241219175333.GE26279@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v7vfwrj8.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 05:45:15PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:

> > Peter's "(*(volatile unsigned int *)&s->sequence)++;" qualifies as sane.
> 
> I think the reference was originally to machine code.

Correct; however more tinkering with godbolt got me:

  https://godbolt.org/z/6xoxjdYPx

Where we can see that clang can even optimize the WRITE_ONCE(foo,
READ_ONCE(foo) + 1) case, which I though it would not be able to do.

So perhaps we just need to get GCC fixed.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-12-19 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-17 23:17 [PATCH] seqlock: Use WRITE_ONCE() when updating sequence Daniel Xu
2024-12-18  3:30 ` Waiman Long
2024-12-18 15:45   ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-18 16:10     ` Waiman Long
2024-12-18 16:57       ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-18 18:38         ` Waiman Long
2024-12-18 18:52           ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-18 20:09             ` Waiman Long
2024-12-18 10:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-12-18 15:43   ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-18 16:23     ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-12-18 16:29       ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-12-18 16:59         ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-18 17:12           ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-12-18 19:15             ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-18 19:56             ` Florian Weimer
2024-12-19 16:10               ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-19 16:45                 ` Florian Weimer
2024-12-19 17:48                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-19 17:53                   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2024-12-19 16:34             ` Will Deacon
2024-12-19 17:53               ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-19 17:58                 ` Will Deacon
2024-12-19 18:06                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-19 18:31                     ` Will Deacon
2024-12-20 17:40                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-01-25  0:31 ` Daniel Xu

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