From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>,
Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
Albert Ou <albert@sifive.com>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] riscv/locking: Strengthen spin_lock() and spin_unlock()
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:27:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180222182717.GS25181@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180222181317.GI2855@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:13:17AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> So we have something that is not all that rare in the Linux kernel
> community, namely two conflicting more-or-less concurrent changes.
> This clearly needs to be resolved, either by us not strengthening the
> Linux-kernel memory model in the way we were planning to or by you
> strengthening RISC-V to be no weaker than PowerPC for these sorts of
> externally viewed release-acquire situations.
>
> Other thoughts?
Like said in the other email, I would _much_ prefer to not go weaker
than PPC, I find that PPC is already painfully weak at times.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-22 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-22 12:19 Andrea Parri
2018-02-22 12:44 ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-22 13:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-22 14:12 ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-22 17:27 ` Daniel Lustig
2018-02-22 18:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-22 18:27 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-02-22 19:47 ` Daniel Lustig
2018-02-23 11:16 ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-26 10:39 ` Will Deacon
2018-02-26 14:21 ` Luc Maranget
2018-02-26 16:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-26 16:24 ` Will Deacon
2018-02-26 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-26 17:10 ` Will Deacon
2018-03-06 13:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-27 5:06 ` Boqun Feng
2018-02-27 10:16 ` Boqun Feng
2018-03-01 15:11 ` Andrea Parri
2018-03-01 21:54 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-03-01 22:21 ` Daniel Lustig
2018-02-22 20:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-22 18:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
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