Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755489Ab0G1QBK (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:01:10 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34525 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751136Ab0G1QBG (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:01:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4C5053DA.2050909@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:59:22 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100720 Fedora/3.1.1-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, glommer@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, zamsden@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, gregkh@suse.de, peter@palfrader.org, tglx@linutronix.de, avi@redhat.com, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Add memory modify constraints to xchg() and cmpxchg() References: <4C4F7277.8050306@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1271 Lines: 33 On 07/28/2010 08:45 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:33 PM, tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin > wrote: >> >> x86: Add memory modify constraints to xchg() and cmpxchg() > > Ack. I assume this doesn't really change the code generated? At least > not with a gcc that honors the whole memory clobber thing properly? I didn't do a binary A:B comparison, on the assumption it would preturb the code too much to be equal, but I guess it would be a good idea to at least try. > I also suspect that we can/should get rid of the __xg() thing - it was > there just to make sure gcc didn't see the memory read as a single > word and tried to optimize it. With the "+m" it probably doesn't > matter any more (don't know if it ever did) "+m" would still see as a single word, but the __xg() thing should be obsoleted by asm volatile + "memory", neither of which were in the 1.3.11 version. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/