Hi,
This RFC is a follow-up on the discussion in [1], which led to the
discovery of a few issues in the current implementations of RISC-V
locking and atomic operations.
In summary, this series proposes the following modifications:
1. Use lightweigth fences for acquire/release (locking, atomics)
2. Use the combination of .rl and full fences for fully-ordered
atomics implemented with LR/SC pairs.
3. A few style changes (80-chars lines, alignment).
Applies on top of "next-smp_sl_ar".
Cheers,
Andrea
[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151930201102853&w=2
Andrea Parri (2):
riscv/spinlock: Strengthen implementations with fences
riscv/atomic: Strengthen implementations with fences
arch/riscv/include/asm/atomic.h | 417 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
arch/riscv/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 391 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
arch/riscv/include/asm/fence.h | 12 ++
arch/riscv/include/asm/spinlock.h | 29 +--
4 files changed, 615 insertions(+), 234 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/fence.h
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