Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/3] improve and fix barriers for walking perf rb

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:03:01 -0300

Em Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 04:41:53PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann escreveu:
> This set first adds smp_* barrier variants to tools infrastructure
> and in a second step updates perf and libbpf to make use of them.
> For details, please see individual patches, thanks!
> 
> Arnaldo, if there are no objections, could this be routed via bpf-next
> with Acked-by's due to later dependencies in libbpf? Alternatively,
> I could also get the 2nd patch out during merge window, but perhaps
> it's okay to do in one go as there shouldn't be much conflict in perf.

Right, when updating kernel/events/ring_buffer.c the corresponding
code in tools/ should've been changed :-)

Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>

- Arnaldo
 
> Thanks!
> 
> Daniel Borkmann (3):
>   tools: add smp_* barrier variants to include infrastructure
>   tools, perf: use smp_{rmb,mb} barriers instead of {rmb,mb}
>   bpf, libbpf: use proper barriers in perf ring buffer walk
> 
>  tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h | 10 ++++++++++
>  tools/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h   |  9 ++++++---
>  tools/include/asm/barrier.h            | 11 +++++++++++
>  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c                 | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
>  tools/perf/util/mmap.h                 |  5 +++--
>  5 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.9.5