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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] Rust support
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On 16/04/21 09:09, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Well, the obvious example would be seqlocks. C11 can't do them

Sure it can. C11 requires annotating with (the equivalent of) READ_ONCE
all reads of seqlock-protected fields, but the memory model supports
seqlocks just fine.

> Simlar thing for RCU; C11 can't optimally do that

Technically if you know what you're doing (i.e. that you're not on
Alpha) you can do RCU using a relaxed load followed by an
atomic_signal_fence(memory_order_consume). Which I agree is horrible
and not entirely within the standard, but it works in practice. The
Linux implementation of memory barriers, atomic RMW primitives,
load-acquire/store-release etc. is also completely outside the standard,
so it's not much different and more portable.

The only thing that I really, really miss when programming with C11
atomics is smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic().

Paolo

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