Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] kref: Implement using refcount_t

[Boqun Feng]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:36:24PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 05:11:10PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:08:36PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > All sounds reasonable to me. It's worth pointing out that you can't create
> > > order using a control dependency hanging off the status flag of a
> > > store-conditional, but the code in question here has the dependency from
> > > the loaded value, which is sufficient.
> > 
> > Yeah, I'm always surprised by that 'feature'. Is that ARM specific? Or
> > so more LL/SC archs have this?
> 
> In general, I'm not sure, but I think PPC does allow for the control
> dependency.
> 

You guys mean the "control dependency" from a sc to subsequent WRITE,
like in the following litmus?

	PPC sc-control
	""
	{
	0:r11=x;0:r12=y;0:r3=1;0:r10=0;
	1:r11=x;1:r12=y;
	}

	P0                   | P1             ;
	lwarx r2, r10, r11   | lwz r2, 0(r12) ;
	stwcx. r3, r10, r11  | lwsync           ;
	bne Fail             |                ;
	stw r3, 0(r12)       | lwz r1, 0(r11) ;
	Fail:                |                ;

	exists
	(1:r2 = 1 /\ x = 1 /\ 1:r1 = 0)

PPCMEM and herd both said the exists-clause could be triggered
"Sometimes".

And ISA said:

"""
Because a Store Conditional instruction may complete before its store
has been performed, a conditional Branch instruction that depends on the
CR0 value set by a Store Conditional instruction does not order the
Store Conditional's store with respect to storage accesses caused by
instructions that follow the Branch.
"""

So ppc doesn't honor this "control dependency". ;-)

Regards,
Boqun


> Will

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