Re: [GIT PULL] NOHZ updates for v4.6

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 07:44:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > +/**
> > > + * fetch_or - perform *ptr |= mask and return old value of *ptr
> > > + * @ptr: pointer to value
> > > + * @mask: mask to OR on the value
> > > + *
> > > + * cmpxchg based fetch_or, macro so it works for different integer types
> > > + */
> > > +#ifndef fetch_or
> > > +#define fetch_or(ptr, mask)                                            \
> > > +({     typeof(*(ptr)) __old, __val = *(ptr);                           \
> > > +       for (;;) {                                                      \
> > > +               __old = cmpxchg((ptr), __val, __val | (mask));          \
> > > +               if (__old == __val)                                     \
> > > +                       break;                                          \
> > > +               __val = __old;                                          \
> > > +       }                                                               \
> > > +       __old;                                                          \
> > > +})
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > This is garbage.
> > 
> > This macro re-uses the "mask" argument potentially many many times, so
> > semantically it's very dubious.
> 
> So the below cures that; but do we want to maybe pull this back into
> sched.c and expose a version that operates on a fixed type instead?

So there are other problems with the macro - see the patch I just sent that tries 
to fix all of them.

> Although with xchg() and cmpxchg() we've already set a precedence for
> multi-width operators.

Yes, and if we name the new API 'xchg_or()' as I did it in my patch then it all 
nicely fits into the existing scheme.

Thanks,

	Ingo