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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aryabinin@virtuozzo.com,
	boqun.feng@gmail.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	dvyukov@google.com, will.deacon@arm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] locking/atomics/powerpc: Introduce optimized cmpxchg_release() family of APIs for PowerPC
Date: Sun, 06 May 2018 11:56:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cafd11f9b594903ff1f0acc4d7e7f7453aeb971f.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180505100055.yc4upauxo5etq5ud@gmail.com>

On Sat, 2018-05-05 at 12:00 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> This clearly suggests that PPC_RELEASE_BARRIER is in active use and 'lwsync' is 
> the 'release barrier' instruction, if I interpreted that right.

The closest to one we got.

The semantics are that it orders all load/store pairs to cachable
storage except store+load.

Cheers,
Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-06  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-04 17:39 [PATCH 0/6] arm64: add instrumented atomics Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 1/6] locking/atomic, asm-generic: instrument ordering variants Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 18:01   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-04 18:09     ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 18:24       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05  9:12         ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-05  8:11       ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  8:36         ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Simplify the op definitions in atomic.h some more Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  8:54           ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Combine the atomic_andnot() and atomic64_andnot() API definitions Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 12:15             ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 14:15             ` [PATCH] " Andrea Parri
2018-05-06 12:14           ` [tip:locking/core] locking/atomics: Simplify the op definitions in atomic.h some more tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2018-05-09  7:33             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-09 13:03               ` Will Deacon
2018-05-15  8:54                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-15  8:35               ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-15 11:41                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 12:13                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 15:43                   ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-15 17:10                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 17:53                       ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-15 18:11                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 18:15                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 18:52                             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-05-15 19:39                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-21 17:12                           ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-06 14:12           ` [PATCH] " Andrea Parri
2018-05-06 14:57             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-07  9:54               ` Andrea Parri
2018-05-18 18:43               ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-05-05  8:47         ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05  9:04           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  9:24             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05  9:38             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 10:00               ` [RFC PATCH] locking/atomics/powerpc: Introduce optimized cmpxchg_release() family of APIs for PowerPC Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 10:26                 ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-06  1:56                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2018-05-05 10:16               ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines Boqun Feng
2018-05-05 10:35                 ` [RFC PATCH] locking/atomics/powerpc: Clarify why the cmpxchg_relaxed() family of APIs falls back to full cmpxchg() Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 11:28                   ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-05 13:27                     ` [PATCH] locking/atomics/powerpc: Move cmpxchg helpers to asm/cmpxchg.h and define the full set of cmpxchg APIs Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 14:03                       ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-06 12:11                         ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-07  1:04                           ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-07  6:50                             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 12:13                     ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Boqun Feng
2018-05-07 13:31                       ` [PATCH v2] " Boqun Feng
2018-05-05  9:05           ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines Dmitry Vyukov
2018-05-05  9:32             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-07  6:43               ` [RFC PATCH] locking/atomics/x86/64: Clean up and fix details of <asm/atomic64_64.h> Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  9:09           ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05  9:29             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-05 10:48               ` [PATCH] locking/atomics: Shorten the __atomic_op() defines to __op() Ingo Molnar
2018-05-05 10:59                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 12:15                 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2018-05-06 12:14         ` [tip:locking/core] locking/atomics: Clean up the atomic.h maze of #defines tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] locking/atomic, asm-generic: instrument atomic*andnot*() Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm64: use <linux/atomic.h> for cmpxchg Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm64: fix assembly constraints " Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] arm64: use instrumented atomics Mark Rutland
2018-05-04 17:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] arm64: instrument smp_{load_acquire,store_release} Mark Rutland

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