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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux•ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead•org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] lib: Introduce generic __cmpxchg_u64() and use it where needed
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 13:29:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181101202910.GB4170@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181101172739.GA3196@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 06:27:39PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 06:14:32PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > This reminds me of this sooooo silly patch :/
> > > 
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=adb03115f4590baa280ddc440a8eff08a6be0cb7
> 
> You'd probably want to write it like so; +- some ordering stuff, that
> code didn't look like it really needs the memory barriers implied by
> these, but I didn't look too hard.

The atomic_fetch_add() API would need to be propagated out to the other
architectures, correct?

							Thanx, Paul

> diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
> index c0a9d26c06ce..11deb1d7e96b 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/route.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
> @@ -485,16 +485,10 @@ u32 ip_idents_reserve(u32 hash, int segs)
>  	u32 now = (u32)jiffies;
>  	u32 new, delta = 0;
> 
> -	if (old != now && cmpxchg(p_tstamp, old, now) == old)
> +	if (old != now && try_cmpxchg(p_tstamp, &old, now))
>  		delta = prandom_u32_max(now - old);
> 
> -	/* Do not use atomic_add_return() as it makes UBSAN unhappy */
> -	do {
> -		old = (u32)atomic_read(p_id);
> -		new = old + delta + segs;
> -	} while (atomic_cmpxchg(p_id, old, new) != old);
> -
> -	return new - segs;
> +	return atomic_fetch_add(segs + delta, p_id) + delta;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip_idents_reserve);
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-01 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-31 19:52 [RFC PATCH] lib: Introduce generic __cmpxchg_u64() and use it where needed Guenter Roeck
2018-10-31 21:32 ` Paul Burton
2018-10-31 22:02   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-10-31 23:32     ` Paul Burton
2018-11-01  0:17       ` Trond Myklebust
2018-11-01 13:18         ` Mark Rutland
2018-11-01 14:59           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 15:22             ` Trond Myklebust
2018-11-01 16:32               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 16:59                 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-11-01 17:14                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 17:27                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 20:29                       ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2018-11-01 21:38                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 22:26                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-01 17:43                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-01 17:01                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-01 17:18                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 17:34                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-01 17:46                     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-11-01 21:45                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-02 10:56                   ` David Laight
2018-11-02 12:23                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-02 13:38                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-02 13:37                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-02 16:19                 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-11-05 10:38                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-05 14:24                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 17:54         ` Paul Burton
2018-11-01  1:18       ` Guenter Roeck
2018-11-01  6:30         ` Trond Myklebust
2018-11-01 15:28           ` Guenter Roeck

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