Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:45:20 -0500
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [this_cpu_xx V8 11/16] Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg
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* Christoph Lameter (cl@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
> Provide support for this_cpu_cmpxchg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  include/linux/percpu.h |   99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 99 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/percpu.h	2009-12-18 15:17:05.000000000 -0600
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu.h	2009-12-18 15:33:12.000000000 -0600
> @@ -443,6 +443,62 @@ do {									\
>  # define this_cpu_xor(pcp, val)		__pcpu_size_call(this_cpu_or_, (pcp), (val))
>  #endif
>  
> +static inline unsigned long __this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic(volatile void *pptr,
> +		unsigned long old, unsigned long new, int size)
> +{
> +	unsigned long prev;
> +	volatile void * ptr = __this_cpu_ptr(pptr);
> +
> +	switch (size) {
> +	case 1: prev = *(u8 *)ptr;
> +		if (prev == old)
> +			*(u8 *)ptr = (u8)new;
> +		break;
> +	case 2: prev = *(u16 *)ptr;
> +		if (prev == old)
> +			*(u16 *)ptr = (u16)new;
> +		break;
> +	case 4: prev = *(u32 *)ptr;
> +		if (prev == old)
> +			*(u32 *)ptr = (u32)new;
> +		break;
> +	case 8: prev = *(u64 *)ptr;
> +		if (prev == old)
> +			*(u64 *)ptr = (u64)new;
> +		break;
> +	default:
> +		__bad_size_call_parameter();
> +	}
> +	return prev;
> +}

Hi Christoph,

I am a bit concerned about the "generic" version of this_cpu_cmpxchg.
Given that what LTTng needs is basically an atomic, nmi-safe version of
the primitive (on all architectures that have something close to a NMI),
this means that it could not switch over to your primitives until we add
the equivalent support we currently have with local_t to all
architectures. The transition would be faster if we create an
atomic_cpu_*() variant which would map to local_t operations in the
initial version.

Or maybe have I missed something in your patchset that address this ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

> +
> +static inline unsigned long this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic(volatile void *ptr,
> +		unsigned long old, unsigned long new, int size)
> +{
> +	unsigned long prev;
> +
> +	preempt_disable();
> +	prev = __this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic(ptr, old, new, size);
> +	preempt_enable();
> +	return prev;
> +}
> +
> +#ifndef this_cpu_cmpxchg
> +# ifndef this_cpu_cmpxchg_1
> +#  define this_cpu_cmpxchg_1(pcp, old, new) this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic((pcp), (old), (new), 1)
> +# endif
> +# ifndef this_cpu_cmpxchg_2
> +#  define this_cpu_cmpxchg_2(pcp, old, new) this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic((pcp), (old), (new), 2)
> +# endif
> +# ifndef this_cpu_cmpxchg_4
> +#  define this_cpu_cmpxchg_4(pcp, old, new) this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic((pcp), (old), (new), 4)
> +# endif
> +# ifndef this_cpu_cmpxchg_8
> +#  define this_cpu_cmpxchg_8(pcp, old, new) this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic((pcp), (old), (new), 8)
> +# endif
> +# define this_cpu_cmpxchg(pcp, old, new) __pcpu_size_call_return(__this_cpu_cmpxchg_, (old), (new))
> +#endif
> +
>  /*
>   * Generic percpu operations that do not require preemption handling.
>   * Either we do not care about races or the caller has the
> @@ -594,6 +650,22 @@ do {									\
>  # define __this_cpu_xor(pcp, val)	__pcpu_size_call(__this_cpu_xor_, (pcp), (val))
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifndef __this_cpu_cmpxchg
> +# ifndef __this_cpu_cmpxchg_1
> +#  define __this_cpu_cmpxchg_1(pcp, old, new) __this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic((pcp), (old), (new), 1)
> +# endif
> +# ifndef __this_cpu_cmpxchg_2
> +#  define __this_cpu_cmpxchg_2(pcp, old, new) __this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic((pcp), (old), (new), 2)
> +# endif
> +# ifndef __this_cpu_cmpxchg_4
> +#  define __this_cpu_cmpxchg_4(pcp, old, new) __this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic((pcp), (old), (new), 4)
> +# endif
> +# ifndef __this_cpu_cmpxchg_8
> +#  define __this_cpu_cmpxchg_8(pcp, old, new) __this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic((pcp), (old), (new), 8)
> +# endif
> +# define __this_cpu_cmpxchg(pcp, old, new) __pcpu_size_call_return(__this_cpu_cmpxchg_, (old), (new))
> +#endif
> +
>  /*
>   * IRQ safe versions of the per cpu RMW operations. Note that these operations
>   * are *not* safe against modification of the same variable from another
> @@ -709,4 +781,31 @@ do {									\
>  # define irqsafe_cpu_xor(pcp, val) __pcpu_size_call(irqsafe_cpu_xor_, (val))
>  #endif
>  
> +static inline unsigned long irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_generic(volatile void *ptr,
> +		unsigned long old, unsigned long new, int size)
> +{
> +	unsigned long flags, prev;
> +
> +	local_irq_save(flags);
> +	prev = __this_cpu_cmpxchg_generic(ptr, old, new, size);
> +	local_irq_restore(flags);
> +	return prev;
> +}
> +
> +#ifndef irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg
> +# ifndef irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_1
> +#  define irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_1(pcp, old, new) irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_generic(((pcp), (old), (new), 1)
> +# endif
> +# ifndef irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_2
> +#  define irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_2(pcp, old, new) irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_generic(((pcp), (old), (new), 2)
> +# endif
> +# ifndef irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_4
> +#  define irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_4(pcp, old, new) irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_generic(((pcp), (old), (new), 4)
> +# endif
> +# ifndef irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_8
> +#  define irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_8(pcp, old, new) irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_generic(((pcp), (old), (new), 8)
> +# endif
> +# define irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg(pcp, old, new) __pcpu_size_call_return(irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg_, (old), (new))
> +#endif
> +
>  #endif /* __LINUX_PERCPU_H */
> 
> -- 

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