Re: [PATCH 1/2] futex: mark futex_detect_cmpxchg() as 'noinline'

From: Guo Ren
Date: Sun Dec 20 2020 - 21:59:35 EST


Hi Arnd,

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 1:49 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 4:46 PM Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 7:26 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 7:09 AM Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:15 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > I had a look at what other architectures always implement
> > > > > futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() or can use the asm-generic non-SMP version,
> > > > > and I found that it's pretty much all of them, the odd ones being just sparc32
> > > > > and csky, which use asm-generic/futex.h but do have an SMP option,
> > > > > as well as xtensa
> > > > >
> > > > > I would guess that for csky, this is a mistake, as the architecture is fairly
> > > > > new and should be able to implement it. Not sure about sparc32.
> > > >
> > > > The c610, c807, c810 don't support SMP, so futex_cmpxchg_enabled = 1
> > > > with asm-generic's implementation.
> > > > For c860, there is no HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG and cmpxchg_inatomic/inuser
> > > > implementation, so futex_cmpxchg_enabled = 0.
> > > >
> > > > Thx for point it out, we'll implement cmpxchg_inatomic/inuser for C860
> > > > and still use asm-generic for non-smp CPUs.
> > >
> > > Sounds good to me.
> > Done: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-csky/1608478763-60148-3-git-send-email-guoren@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
>
> Thanks!
>
> Can you clarify if there are any dependencies on the other patches in
> that series?
No dependency.

>
> I'd like to take the futex patch through the asm-generic tree along with the
> patches for the other architectures.
You take the futex patch and I'll remove it from my tree.

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Best Regards
Guo Ren

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