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

[Andrea Parri]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 04:08:47PM +0800, Guo Ren wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 02:17:16PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> 	CPU0			CPU1
> 
> 	WRITE_ONCE(x, 1)	WRITE_ONCE(y, 1)
> 	r0 = xchg(&y, 2)	r1 = xchg(&x, 2)
> 
> must not allow: r0==0 && r1==0
> So we must add a smp_mb between WRITE_ONCE() and xchg(), right?

The state (r0==0 && r1==0) _must_ not be allowed in the above snippet (so,
even without the additional smp_mb() between WRITE_ONCE() and xchg()).  In
informal terms, xchg() provides the smp_mb().

Compare implementations of xchg() and xchg_relaxed().  The following could
also be helpful (in addition to the references pointed out earlier):

  Documentation/atomic_t.txt

  Andrea


> 
>  Guo Ren
>