Re: [PATCH 13/17] RISC-V: Add include subdirectory

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Mon Jun 26 2017 - 16:07:20 EST


On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 06:17:27 PDT (-0700), peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 04:00:03PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/spinlock.h
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..9736f5714e54
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/spinlock.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
>> +/*
>> + * Copyright (C) 2015 Regents of the University of California
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
>> + * as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
>> + *
>> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
>> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> + */
>> +
>> +#ifndef _ASM_RISCV_SPINLOCK_H
>> +#define _ASM_RISCV_SPINLOCK_H
>> +
>> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
>> +#include <asm/current.h>
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Simple spin lock operations. These provide no fairness guarantees.
>> + */
>
> Any reason to use a test-and-set spinlock at all?

Just simplicity. I looked at the MIPS ticket lock and I think we can implement
that while still maintaining the forward progress constraints on our LR/SC
sequences. I added a FIXME about it, which I'll try to get around to

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-linux/commit/a75d28c849e695639b7909ffa88ce571abfb0c76

but I'm going to try and get a v3 patch set out first.

>> +
>> +#define arch_spin_lock_flags(lock, flags) arch_spin_lock(lock)
>> +#define arch_spin_is_locked(x) ((x)->lock != 0)
>> +#define arch_spin_unlock_wait(x) \
>> + do { cpu_relax(); } while ((x)->lock)
>
> Hehe, yeah, no ;-) There are ordering constraints on that.

OK. I copied the ordering guarntees from MIPS here

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-linux/commit/7d16920452c6bd14c847aade2d51c56d2a1ae457

>> +
>> +static inline void arch_spin_unlock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
>> +{
>> + __asm__ __volatile__ (
>> + "amoswap.w.rl x0, x0, %0"
>> + : "=A" (lock->lock)
>> + :: "memory");
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline int arch_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
>> +{
>> + int tmp = 1, busy;
>> +
>> + __asm__ __volatile__ (
>> + "amoswap.w.aq %0, %2, %1"
>> + : "=r" (busy), "+A" (lock->lock)
>> + : "r" (tmp)
>> + : "memory");
>> +
>> + return !busy;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline void arch_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
>> +{
>> + while (1) {
>> + if (arch_spin_is_locked(lock))
>> + continue;
>> +
>> + if (arch_spin_trylock(lock))
>> + break;
>> + }
>> +}

Thanks for all the comments!