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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>,
	Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/4] qrwlock: Use smp_store_release() in write_unlock()
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:21:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140115232134.GM31570@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140115205346.GF10038@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:53:46PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> But we did drop support for SMP i386 quite some time ago, so perhaps
> it is time to drop support for SMP Alpha pre-EV56.

So while the primitive is called smp_store_release() the !SMP variant
still does:
 
  *(volatile __type *) = ptr;

which should not compile on any Alpha pre EV56, SMP or no for __type ==
u8.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-15 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-13  2:47 Daniel J Blueman
2014-01-13  3:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-13 16:41 ` Waiman Long
2014-01-14  2:28   ` Daniel J Blueman
2014-01-14 11:03     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-14 15:25       ` Waiman Long
2014-01-14 17:08       ` Matt Turner
2014-01-14 18:01         ` Richard Henderson
2014-01-14 19:09           ` Waiman Long
2014-01-14 20:20             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-14 23:44           ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-15  0:25             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-15  2:39               ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-15  8:07                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-15 20:53                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-15 23:21                     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
     [not found]                       ` <CA+55aFydYLQeBq=4AQQp_4dAnq09ocLmde1LFaXiNAJ=wJzfFA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-01-16 10:36                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-18 10:01                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-18 11:34                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-18 12:25                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-18 12:41                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-18 21:22                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-19  0:57                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-19  8:04                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-19 19:56                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-20  0:52                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-21 15:02                                         ` Waiman Long
2014-01-21 15:41                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-21 16:16                                             ` Waiman Long
2014-01-15  3:08             ` Daniel J Blueman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-01-08 16:59 [PATCH v8 0/4] qrwlock: Introducing a queue read/write lock implementation Waiman Long
2014-01-08 16:59 ` [PATCH v8 4/4] qrwlock: Use smp_store_release() in write_unlock() Waiman Long

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