Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across allarchitectures

[Stefan Richter]

On 8/15/2007 10:18 AM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:49:03PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> Chris Snook <csnook@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Because atomic operations are generally used for synchronization, which requires 
>> > volatile behavior.  Most such codepaths currently use an inefficient barrier(). 
>> >  Some forget to and we get bugs, because people assume that atomic_read() 
>> > actually reads something, and atomic_write() actually writes something.  Worse, 
>> > these are architecture-specific, even compiler version-specific bugs that are 
>> > often difficult to track down.
>> 
>> I'm yet to see a single example from the current tree where
>> this patch series is the correct solution.  So far the only
>> example has been a buggy piece of code which has since been
>> fixed with a cpu_relax.
> 
> Btw.: we still have
> 
> include/asm-i386/mach-es7000/mach_wakecpu.h:  while (!atomic_read(deassert));
> include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_wakecpu.h: while (!atomic_read(deassert));
> 
> Looks like they need to be fixed as well.


I don't know if this here is affected:

/* drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.h */
static inline unsigned int get_hpsb_generation(struct hpsb_host *host)
{
	return atomic_read(&host->generation);
}

/* drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c */
static int nodemgr_host_thread(void *__hi)
{
	[...]

	for (;;) {
		[... sleep until bus reset event ...]

		/* Pause for 1/4 second in 1/16 second intervals,
		 * to make sure things settle down. */
		g = get_hpsb_generation(host);
		for (i = 0; i < 4 ; i++) {
			if (msleep_interruptible(63) ||
			    kthread_should_stop())
				goto exit;

	/* Now get the generation in which the node ID's we collect
	 * are valid.  During the bus scan we will use this generation
	 * for the read transactions, so that if another reset occurs
	 * during the scan the transactions will fail instead of
	 * returning bogus data. */

			generation = get_hpsb_generation(host);

	/* If we get a reset before we are done waiting, then
	 * start the waiting over again */

			if (generation != g)
				g = generation, i = 0;
		}

		[... scan bus, using generation ...]

	}
exit:
[...]
}



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Stefan Richter
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