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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:48:54 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 3/5] powerpc: atomic: implement
 atomic{,64}_{add,sub}_return_* variants
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:48:17AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> +/*
> + * Since {add,sub}_return_relaxed and xchg_relaxed are implemented with
> + * a "bne-" instruction at the end, so an isync is enough as a acquire barrier
> + * on the platform without lwsync.
> + */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +#define smp_acquire_barrier__after_atomic() \
> +	__asm__ __volatile__(PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER : : : "memory")
> +#else
> +#define smp_acquire_barrier__after_atomic() barrier()
> +#endif
> +#define arch_atomic_op_acquire(op, args...)				\
> +({									\
> +	typeof(op##_relaxed(args)) __ret  = op##_relaxed(args);		\
> +	smp_acquire_barrier__after_atomic();				\
> +	__ret;								\
> +})
> +
> +#define arch_atomic_op_release(op, args...)				\
> +({									\
> +	smp_lwsync();							\
> +	op##_relaxed(args);						\
> +})

Urgh, so this is RCpc. We were trying to get rid of that if possible.
Lets wait until that's settled before introducing more of it.

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