On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 06:06:38PM +0000, guoren@kernel.org wrote:

From: Guo Ren <redacted>

Some architectures don't have sub-word swap atomic instruction,
they only have the full word's one.

The sub-word swap only improve the performance when:
NR_CPUS < 16K
 *  0- 7: locked byte
 *     8: pending
 *  9-15: not used
 * 16-17: tail index
 * 18-31: tail cpu (+1)

The 9-15 bits are wasted to use xchg16 in xchg_tail.

Please let architecture select xchg16/xchg32 to implement
xchg_tail.

So I really don't like this, this pushes complexity into the generic
code for something that's really not needed.

Lots of RISC already implement sub-word atomics using word ll/sc.
Obviously they're not sharing code like they should be :/ See for
example arch/mips/kernel/cmpxchg.c.

Also, I really do think doing ticket locks first is a far more sensible
step.