Re: [PATCH v2] arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h: redefine rmb and wmb to lwsync

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 02:33:44PM +0530, Kautuk Consul wrote:
> A link from ibm.com states:
> "Ensures that all instructions preceding the call to __lwsync
>  complete before any subsequent store instructions can be executed
>  on the processor that executed the function. Also, it ensures that
>  all load instructions preceding the call to __lwsync complete before
>  any subsequent load instructions can be executed on the processor
>  that executed the function. This allows you to synchronize between
>  multiple processors with minimal performance impact, as __lwsync
>  does not wait for confirmation from each processor."
> 
> Thats why smp_rmb() and smp_wmb() are defined to lwsync.
> But this same understanding applies to parallel pipeline
> execution on each PowerPC processor.
> So, use the lwsync instruction for rmb() and wmb() on the PPC
> architectures that support it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <kconsul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
> index b95b666f0374..e088dacc0ee8 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
> @@ -36,8 +36,15 @@
>   * heavy-weight sync, so smp_wmb() can be a lighter-weight eieio.
>   */
>  #define __mb()   __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory")
> +
> +/* The sub-arch has lwsync. */
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_E500MC)
> +#define __rmb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("lwsync" : : : "memory")
> +#define __wmb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("lwsync" : : : "memory")

Hmmm...

Does the lwsync instruction now order both cached and uncached accesses?
Or have there been changes so that smp_rmb() and smp_wmb() get this
definition, while rmb() and wmb() still get the sync instruction?
(Not seeing this, but I could easily be missing something.)

							Thanx, Paul

> +#else
>  #define __rmb()  __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory")
>  #define __wmb()  __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory")
> +#endif
>  
>  /* The sub-arch has lwsync */
>  #if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_E500MC)
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>