seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier()
Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier(), a new construct that can be used to provide write barrier semantics in seqcount read loops instead of the usual consistency guarantee. raw_write_seqcount_barier() is equivalent to: raw_write_seqcount_begin(); raw_write_seqcount_end(); But avoids issueing two back-to-back smp_wmb() instructions. This construct works because the read side will 'stall' when observing odd values. This means that -- referring to the example in the comment below -- even though there is no (matching) read barrier between the loads of X and Y, we cannot observe !x && !y, because: - if we observe Y == false we must observe the first sequence increment, which makes us loop, until - we observe !(seq & 1) -- the second sequence increment -- at which time we must also observe T == true. Suggested-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: pang.xunlei@linaro.org Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150617122924.GP3644@twins.programming.kicks-ass.netSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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