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Date:   Mon, 31 May 2021 23:10:49 +0800
From:   Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] perf auxtrace: Optimize barriers with
 load-acquire and store-release
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Hi Peter, Adrian,

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:03:19PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> Load-acquire and store-release are one-way permeable barriers, which can
> be used to guarantee the memory ordering between accessing the buffer
> data and the buffer's head / tail.
> 
> This patch optimizes the memory ordering with the load-acquire and
> store-release barriers.

Is this patch okay for you?

Besides this patch, I have an extra question.  You could see for
accessing the AUX buffer's head and tail, it also support to use
compiler build-in functions for atomicity accessing:

  __sync_val_compare_and_swap()
  __sync_bool_compare_and_swap()

Since now we have READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE(), do you think we still need
to support __sync_xxx_compare_and_swap() atomicity?

I checked the code for updating head and tail for the perf ring buffer
(see ring_buffer_read_head() and ring_buffer_write_tail() in the file
tools/include/linux/ring_buffer.h), which doesn't support
__sync_xxx_compare_and_swap() anymore.  This is why I wander if should
drop __sync_xxx_compare_and_swap() atomicity for AUX ring buffer as
well.

Thanks,
Leo