Thread (85 messages) 85 messages, 12 authors, 2016-01-11

Re: [PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-04 13:59:58
Also in: linux-arch, linux-arm-kernel, linux-mips, linux-s390, linux-sh, linux-um, lkml, sparclinux

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:54:20PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:36:58PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 11:12:44AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 11:24:38AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
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My only concern is that it gives people an additional handle onto a
"new" set of barriers - just because they're prefixed with __*
unfortunately doesn't stop anyone from using it (been there with
other arch stuff before.)

I wonder whether we should consider making the smp memory barriers
inline functions, so these __smp_xxx() variants can be undef'd
afterwards, thereby preventing drivers getting their hands on these
new macros?
That'd be tricky to do cleanly since asm-generic depends on
ifndef to add generic variants where needed.

But it would be possible to add a checkpatch test for this.
Wasn't the whole purpose of these things for 'drivers' (namely
virtio/xen hypervisor interaction) to use these?
Ah, I see, you add virt_*mb() stuff later on for that use case.

So, assuming everybody does include asm-generic/barrier.h, you could
simply #undef the __smp version at the end of that, once we've generated
all the regular primitives from it, no?
Not so simple - that's why I mentioned using inline functions.

The new smp_* _macros_ are:

+#define smp_mb()       __smp_mb()

which means if we simply #undef __smp_mb(), smp_mb() then points at
something which is no longer available, and we'll end up with errors
saying that __smp_mb() doesn't exist.

My suggestion was to change:

#ifndef smp_mb
#define smp_mb()	__smp_mb()
#endif

to:

#ifndef smp_mb
static inline void smp_mb(void)
{
	__smp_mb();
}
#endif

which then means __smp_mb() and friends can be #undef'd afterwards.

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