Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] Deduplicate RISCV cmpxchg.h and atomic.c macros

From: Andrea Parri
Date: Thu Aug 03 2023 - 09:53:49 EST


On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 02:13:57AM -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> I unified previous patchsets into a single one, since the work is related.
>
> While studying riscv's cmpxchg.h file, I got really interested in
> understanding how RISCV asm implemented the different versions of
> {cmp,}xchg.
>
> When I understood the pattern, it made sense for me to remove the
> duplications and create macros to make it easier to understand what exactly
> changes between the versions: Instruction sufixes & barriers.
>
> Also, did the same kind of work on atomic.c.
>
> Note to Guo Ren:
> I did some further improvement after your previous reviews, so I ended
> up afraid including your Reviewed-by before cheching if the changes are
> ok for you. Please check it out again, I just removed some helper macros
> that were not being used elsewhere in the kernel.
>
> Thanks!
> Leo
>
>
> Changes since squashed cmpxchg:
> - Unified with atomic.c patchset
> - Rebased on top of torvalds/master (thanks Andrea Parri!)
> - Removed helper macros that were not being used elsewhere in the kernel.
>
> Changes since (cmpxchg) RFCv3:
> - Squashed the 6 original patches in 2: one for cmpxchg and one for xchg
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230404163741.2762165-1-leobras@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Changes since (cmpxchg) RFCv2:
> - Fixed macros that depend on having a local variable with a magic name
> - Previous cast to (long) is now only applied on 4-bytes cmpxchg
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230321074249.2221674-1-leobras@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Changes since (cmpxchg) RFCv1:
> - Fixed patch 4/6 suffix from 'w.aqrl' to '.w.aqrl', to avoid build error
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230318080059.1109286-1-leobras@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
>
> Leonardo Bras (3):
> riscv/cmpxchg: Deduplicate xchg() asm functions
> riscv/cmpxchg: Deduplicate cmpxchg() asm and macros
> riscv/atomic.h : Deduplicate arch_atomic.*
>
> arch/riscv/include/asm/atomic.h | 164 ++++++++--------
> arch/riscv/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 318 +++++--------------------------
> 2 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 359 deletions(-)

LGTM. For the series,

Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>

Andrea