From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752055AbaIETYr (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 15:24:47 -0400 Received: from mailout32.mail01.mtsvc.net ([216.70.64.70]:45500 "EHLO n23.mail01.mtsvc.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751209AbaIETYp (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 15:24:45 -0400 Message-ID: <540A0DF3.8030802@hurleysoftware.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:24:35 -0400 From: Peter Hurley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com CC: Michael Cree , "H. Peter Anvin" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , David Laight , Jakub Jelinek , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , Tony Luck , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , Oleg Nesterov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Paul Mackerras , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , Miroslav Franc , Richard Henderson , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing References: <54079B70.4050200@hurleysoftware.com> <1409785893.30640.118.camel@pasglop> <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D17487172@AcuExch.aculab.com> <1409824374.4246.62.camel@pasglop> <5408E458.3@zytor.com> <54090AF4.7060406@hurleysoftware.com> <54091B30.2090509@zytor.com> <20140905081648.GB5281@omega> <20140905180950.GU5001@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <540A05F7.1070202@hurleysoftware.com> <20140905190506.GV5001@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20140905190506.GV5001@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: 990527 peter@hurleysoftware.com X-MT-ID: 8FA290C2A27252AACF65DBC4A42F3CE3735FB2A4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/05/2014 03:05 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 02:50:31PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: >> On 09/05/2014 02:09 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: [cut] >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> documentation: Record limitations of bitfields and small variables >>> >>> This commit documents the fact that it is not safe to use bitfields as >>> shared variables in synchronization algorithms. It also documents that >>> CPUs must provide one-byte and two-byte load and store instructions >> ^ >> atomic > > Here you meant non-atomic? My guess is that you are referring to the > fact that you could emulate a one-byte store on pre-EV56 Alpha CPUs > using the ll and sc atomic-read-modify-write instructions, correct? Yes, that's what I meant. I must be tired and am misreading the commit message, or misinterpreting it's meaning.