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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 4/4] qrwlock: Use smp_store_release() in write_unlock()
On 01/12/2014 09:47 PM, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 January 2014 01:10:03 UTC+8, Waiman Long wrote:
> > This patch modifies the queue_write_unlock() function to use the
> > new smp_store_release() function in another pending patch. It also
> > removes the temporary implementation of smp_load_acquire() and
> > smp_store_release() function in qrwlock.c.
> >
> > This patch should only be merged if PeterZ's linux-arch patch patch
> > was merged.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h | 4 +---
> > kernel/locking/qrwlock.c | 34
> ----------------------------------
> > 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> > index 2b9a7b4..4d4bd04 100644
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> > @@ -179,9 +179,7 @@ static inline void queue_write_unlock(struct
> qrwlock *lock)
> > /*
> > * Make sure that none of the critical section will be leaked out.
> > */
> > - smp_mb__before_clear_bit();
> > - ACCESS_ONCE(lock->cnts.writer) = 0;
> > - smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
> > + smp_store_release(&lock->cnts.writer, 0)
>
> This will fail compilation, so probably needs further testing with
> Peter's load_acquire/store_release barrier patches.
>

Peter,

I found out that the build failure was caused by the fact that the
__native_word() macro (used internally by compiletime_assert_atomic())
allows only a size of 4 or 8 for x86-64. The data type that I used is a
byte. Is there a reason why byte and short are not considered native?

-Longman


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