Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] riscv/spinlock: Strengthen implementations with fences

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Fri Mar 09 2018 - 13:07:25 EST


On Fri, 09 Mar 2018 04:16:43 PST (-0800), parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 02:11:12PM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:03:03 PST (-0800), parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 10:33:49AM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
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>>I'm going to go produce a new set of spinlocks, I think it'll be a bit more
>>coherent then.
>>
>>I'm keeping your other patch in my queue for now, it generally looks good
>>but I haven't looked closely yet.
>
>Patches 1 and 2 address a same issue ("release-to-acquire"); this is also
>expressed, more or less explicitly, in the corresponding commit messages:
>it might make sense to "queue" them together, and to build the new locks
>on top of these (even if this meant "rewrite all of/a large portion of
>spinlock.h"...).

I agree. IIRC you had a fixup to the first pair of patches, can you submit
a v2?

I've just sent it (with updated changelog).

Thanks!