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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] atomics/treewide: rework ordering barriers
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:16:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180605121623.GI12258@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180529180746.29684-3-mark.rutland@arm.com>

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 07:07:41PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> +#ifndef __atomic_mb__after_acquire
> +#define __atomic_mb__after_acquire	smp_mb__after_atomic
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef __atomic_mb__before_release
> +#define __atomic_mb__before_release	smp_mb__before_atomic
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef __atomic_mb__before_fence
> +#define __atomic_mb__before_fence	smp_mb__before_atomic
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef __atomic_mb__after_fence
> +#define __atomic_mb__after_fence	smp_mb__after_atomic
> +#endif

I really _really_ dislike those names.. because they imply providing an
MB before/after something else.

But that is exactly what they do not.

How about:

	__atomic_acquire_fence
	__atomic_release_fence

for the acquire/release things, and simply using
smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic for the full fence, its exactly what they
were made for.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-05 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-29 18:07 [PATCH 0/7] atomics: generate atomic headers Mark Rutland
2018-05-29 18:07 ` [PATCH 1/7] atomics/tty: add missing atomic_long_t * cast Mark Rutland
2018-05-29 18:35   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-05 12:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-05 14:20     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-05 14:43       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-05 14:53         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-06 13:55           ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-06 14:00           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-22 16:55             ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-28 12:07               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-05-29 18:07 ` [PATCH 2/7] atomics/treewide: rework ordering barriers Mark Rutland
2018-06-05 12:16   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-06-05 13:28     ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-05 13:56       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-05 14:02         ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-05 14:15           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-29 18:07 ` [PATCH 3/7] atomics: separate basic {cmp,}xchg() Mark Rutland
2018-05-29 18:07 ` [PATCH 4/7] atomics: add common header generation files Mark Rutland
2018-06-05 12:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-05 12:52     ` Mark Rutland
2018-05-29 18:07 ` [PATCH 5/7] atomics: switch to generated fallbacks Mark Rutland
2018-05-29 18:07 ` [PATCH 6/7] atomics: switch to generated atomic-long Mark Rutland
2018-05-29 18:07 ` [PATCH 7/7] atomics: switch to generated instrumentation Mark Rutland
2018-06-04 16:21 ` [PATCH 0/7] atomics: generate atomic headers Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-05  5:56   ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-05 13:31   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-05 13:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-05 13:58   ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-05 14:14     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-05 14:23       ` Mark Rutland

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