Re: [PATCH v2 31/32] sh: support a 2-byte smp_store_mb

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 01:52:17PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Peter, what do you think? How about I leave this patch as is for now?
> > 
> > No, and I object to removing the single byte implementation too. Either
> > remove the full arch or fix xchg() to conform. xchg() should work on all
> > native word sizes, for SH that would be 1,2 and 4 bytes.
> 
> Rick, maybe you could explain how is current 1 byte xchg on llsc wrong?

It doesn't seem to preserve the 3 other bytes in the word.

> It does use 4 byte accesses but IIUC that is all that exists on
> this architecture.

Right, that's not a problem, look at arch/alpha/include/asm/xchg.h for
example. A store to another portion of the word should make the
store-conditional fail and we'll retry the loop.

The short versions should however preserve the other bytes in the word.

SH's cmpxchg() is equally incomplete and does not provide 1 and 2 byte
versions.

In any case, I'm all for rm -rf arch/sh/, one less arch to worry about
is always good, but ISTR some people wanting to resurrect SH:

  http://old.lwn.net/Articles/647636/

Rob, Jeff, Sato-san, might I suggest you send a MAINTAINERS patch and
take up an active interest in SH lest someone 'accidentally' nukes it?
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