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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] rhashtable: use bit_spin_locks to protect hash bucket.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 09:35:18AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26 2019, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 04:05:39PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> >>
> >> + * Sometimes we unlock a bucket by writing a new pointer there. In that
> >> + * case we don't need to unlock, but we do need to reset state such as
> >> + * local_bh. For that we have rht_unlocked(). This doesn't include
> >> + * the memory barrier that bit_spin_unlock() provides, but rcu_assign_pointer()
> >> + * will have provided that.
> >
> > Hmm, are you sure that's enough? IIRC rcu_assign_pointer only
> > provides a write barrier compared to the more complete (but one-way)
> > barrier that a spin-lock provides.
> >
>
> The bit_spin_unlock(), which I am avoiding as unnecessary, would have
> provided release semantics.
> i.e. any write by this CPU that happened before the releasing write
> will be visible to other CPUs before (or when) they see the result of
> the releasing write.
> This is (as I understand it) exactly that rcu_assign_pointer() promises
> - even before acquire semantics were added as Paul just reported.
>
> So yes, I am sure (surer now that I've walked through it carefully).

But why not construct a litmus test and apply tools/memory-model? ;-)

Thanx, Paul

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