Re: [PATCH v6 1/6] locking/qspinlock: relaxes cmpxchg & xchg ops in native code

[Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>]

On 09/11/2015 06:27 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Waiman Long wrote:
>
>> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static inline bool virt_queued_spin_lock(struct 
>> qspinlock *lock)
>>     if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
>>         return false;
>>
>> -    while (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) != 0)
>> +    while (atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->val, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) != 0)
>>         cpu_relax();
>
> This code has changed with Peter's recent ccas fix. And the whole 
> virt_queued_spin_lock()
> thing will now be under pv configs. So this doesn't apply to native 
> code anymore, so it
> looks like it should be dropped altogether.
>
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr

You are right. Patch 1 needs to be updated on top of PeterZ latest patch.

Cheers,
Longman