From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
mingo@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] seqlock: Use while instead of if+goto in __read_seqcount_begin
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:44:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200415114441.GG20730@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200414134830.GB28750@willie-the-truck>
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 02:48:31PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Oh yeah, good thinking. Didn't spot that one, but it should work well as
> long as smp_cond_load_relaxed() always implies a control dependency (surely
> it has to?)
Well, yeah, but then you know as well as I do that compilers are dodgy
pieces of crap which are out to get you. Still, I too can't see how it
could mess this up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-15 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-09 13:45 Muchun Song
2020-04-10 11:56 ` Will Deacon
2020-04-14 8:58 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-04-14 11:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-14 12:01 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-04-15 11:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-14 13:48 ` Will Deacon
2020-04-15 11:44 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-04-15 9:37 ` David Laight
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