Re: [PATCH] locking/qrwlock: Allow multiple spinning readers

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 05:47:43PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > +#define smp_cond_load_acquire(ptr, cond_expr)	({		\
> > +	typeof(ptr) __PTR = (ptr);				\
> > +	typeof(*ptr) VAL;					\
> 
> It's a bit grim having a magic variable name, but I have no better
> suggestion.

Right; we had this discussion and this is the best we could come up
with.

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> > +	for (;;) {						\
> > +		VAL = READ_ONCE(*__PTR);			\
> > +		if (cond_expr)					\
> > +			break;					\
> > +		cpu_relax();					\
> > +	}							\
> > +	smp_rmb(); /* ctrl + rmb := acquire */			\
> > +	VAL;							\
> > +})
> 
> Can you stick some #ifndef guards around this, please?

Oh sure; I'll even compile and boot it when I find a moment ;-)