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Commit fd2efaa4 authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/atomics: Rework ordering barriers



Currently architectures can override __atomic_op_*() to define the barriers
used before/after a relaxed atomic when used to build acquire/release/fence
variants.

This has the unfortunate property of requiring the architecture to define the
full wrapper for the atomics, rather than just the barriers they care about,
and gets in the way of generating atomics which can be easily read.

Instead, this patch has architectures define an optional set of barriers:

* __atomic_acquire_fence()
* __atomic_release_fence()
* __atomic_pre_full_fence()
* __atomic_post_full_fence()

... which <linux/atomic.h> uses to build the wrappers.

It would be nice if we could undef these, along with the __atomic_op_*()
wrappers, but that would break the cmpxchg() wrappers, which are written
in preprocessor. Undefs would have been nice, but alas.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: andy.shevchenko@gmail.com
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: glider@google.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: peter@hurleysoftware.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716113017.3909-7-mark.rutland@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 4d2b25f6
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