Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] srcu: Force full grace-period ordering

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 08:11:23 +0100

* Paul E. McKenney <[email-masked]> wrote:

> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index 357b32aaea48..5fdfe874229e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -1175,11 +1175,11 @@ do { \
>   * if the UNLOCK and LOCK are executed by the same CPU or if the
>   * UNLOCK and LOCK operate on the same lock variable.
>   */
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WEAK_RELACQ
>  #define smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()	smp_mb()  /* Full ordering for lock. */
> -#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_PPC */
> +#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WEAK_RELACQ */
>  #define smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()	do { } while (0)
> -#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_PPC */
> +#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WEAK_RELACQ */
>  
>  

So at the risk of sounding totally pedantic, why not structure it like the 
existing smp_mb__before/after*() primitives in barrier.h?

That allows asm-generic/barrier.h to pick up the definition - for example in the 
case of smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() we do:

 #ifndef smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep
 #define smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep()           smp_rmb()
 #endif

Which allows Tile to relax it:

  arch/tile/include/asm/barrier.h:#define smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep()   barrier()

I.e. I'd move the API definition out of rcupdate.h and into barrier.h - even 
though tree-RCU is the only user of this barrier type.

Thanks,

	Ingo