Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755509AbbGQRRO (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:17:14 -0400 Received: from g2t2352.austin.hp.com ([15.217.128.51]:36455 "EHLO g2t2352.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753269AbbGQRRN (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:17:13 -0400 Message-ID: <55A93896.3090905@hp.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:17:10 -0400 From: Waiman Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130109 Thunderbird/10.0.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Deacon CC: Peter Zijlstra , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] ARM: atomics: define our SMP atomics in terms of _relaxed operations References: <1437060758-10381-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <1437060758-10381-8-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <55A816A3.1000502@hp.com> <20150716210821.GC19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <55A845A2.20507@hp.com> <20150717093555.GC18994@arm.com> In-Reply-To: <20150717093555.GC18994@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1227 Lines: 31 On 07/17/2015 05:35 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:00:34AM +0100, Waiman Long wrote: >> On 07/16/2015 05:08 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 04:40:03PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: >>>> On 07/16/2015 11:32 AM, Will Deacon wrote: >>>>> @@ -117,6 +115,8 @@ static inline unsigned long __xchg(unsigned long x, volatile void *ptr, int size >>>>> #error "SMP is not supported on this platform" >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> That #error is only for ARMv5 or below. >> >>>>> #endif >>>>> >>>>> +#define xchg xchg_relaxed >>>> Is that a typo? I think xchg() needs to be a full memory barrier. >>> Pointless on UP. > I don't see the problem here. As Peter pointed out, this code only gets > looked at if !SMP and structuring it this way means I can have one > definition of xchg_relaxed, regardless of architecture version. > > Will I am sorry that I got confused as to where it is defined. It should be OK in this case. Cheers, Longman -- 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/