Re: [PATCH V2 11/19] csky: Atomic operations

[Guo Ren]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 02:03:23PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Test-and-set with MB acting as ACQUIRE, ok.
> > Em ... Ok, I'll try to use test-and-set function instead of it.
> 
> "test-and-set" is just the name of this type of spinlock implementation.
> 
> You _could_ use the linux test_and_set bitop, but those are defined on
> unsigned long and spinlock_t is generally assumed to be of unsigned int
> size.
> 
> Go with the ticket locks as per below.
Ok, I'll learn it.

> > Ok, I'll try to implement ticket lock in next version patch.
> 
> If you need inspiration, look at:
> 
arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h
> 
> Or look at the current version of that file and ignore the LSE version.
> 
> Note that unlock is a store half-word (u16), not having seen your arch
> manual yet I don't know if you even have that.
Nice tips, thank you very much.

 Guo Ren