Re: [PATCH 5/8] powerpc/64s: implement queued spinlocks and rwlocks

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 08:47:05PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Will Deacon's message of July 2, 2020 8:35 pm:
> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 08:25:43PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >> Excerpts from Will Deacon's message of July 2, 2020 6:02 pm:
> >> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 05:48:36PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock.h
> >> >> new file mode 100644
> >> >> index 000000000000..f84da77b6bb7
> >> >> --- /dev/null
> >> >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock.h
> >> >> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> >> >> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> >> >> +#ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_QSPINLOCK_H
> >> >> +#define _ASM_POWERPC_QSPINLOCK_H
> >> >> +
> >> >> +#include <asm-generic/qspinlock_types.h>
> >> >> +
> >> >> +#define _Q_PENDING_LOOPS	(1 << 9) /* not tuned */
> >> >> +
> >> >> +#define smp_mb__after_spinlock()   smp_mb()
> >> >> +
> >> >> +static __always_inline int queued_spin_is_locked(struct qspinlock *lock)
> >> >> +{
> >> >> +	smp_mb();
> >> >> +	return atomic_read(&lock->val);
> >> >> +}
> >> > 
> >> > Why do you need the smp_mb() here?
> >> 
> >> A long and sad tale that ends here 51d7d5205d338
> >> 
> >> Should probably at least refer to that commit from here, since this one 
> >> is not going to git blame back there. I'll add something.
> > 
> > Is this still an issue, though?
> > 
> > See 38b850a73034 (where we added a similar barrier on arm64) and then
> > c6f5d02b6a0f (where we removed it).
> > 
> 
> Oh nice, I didn't know that went away. Thanks for the heads up.
> 
> I'm going to say I'm too scared to remove it while changing the
> spinlock algorithm, but I'll open an issue and we should look at 
> removing it.

Makes sense to me -- it certainly needs a deeper look! In the meantime,
please put some of this in a comment next to the barrier.

Cheers,

Will