Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756093Ab3J1JXX (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Oct 2013 05:23:23 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:46113 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755548Ab3J1JXU (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Oct 2013 05:23:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:22:59 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Victor Kaplansky Cc: anton@samba.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, Frederic Weisbecker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux PPC dev , Mathieu Desnoyers , michael@ellerman.id.au, Michael Neuling Subject: Re: perf events ring buffer memory barrier on powerpc Message-ID: <20131028092259.GJ19466@laptop.lan> References: <12083.1382486094@ale.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20131023141948.GB3566@localhost.localdomain> <20131025173749.GG19466@laptop.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1384 Lines: 37 On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:00:33AM +0200, Victor Kaplansky wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote on 10/25/2013 07:37:49 PM: > > > I would argue for: > > > > READ ->data_tail READ ->data_head > > smp_rmb() (A) smp_rmb() (C) > > WRITE $data READ $data > > smp_wmb() (B) smp_mb() (D) > > STORE ->data_head WRITE ->data_tail > > > > Where A pairs with D, and B pairs with C. > > 1. I agree. My only concern is that architectures which do use atomic > operations > with memory barriers, will issue two consecutive barriers now, which is > sub-optimal. Yeah, although that would be fairly easy to optimize by the CPUs itself; not sure they actually do this though. But we don't really have much choice aside of introducing things like: smp_wmb__after_local_$op; and I'm fairly sure people won't like adding a ton of conditional barriers like that either. > 2. I think the comment in "include/linux/perf_event.h" describing > "data_head" and > "data_tail" for user space need an update as well. Current version - Oh, indeed. Thanks; I'll update that too! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/