1. 12 12月, 2014 1 次提交
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      arch: Cleanup read_barrier_depends() and comments · 8a449718
      Alexander Duyck 提交于
      This patch is meant to cleanup the handling of read_barrier_depends and
      smp_read_barrier_depends.  In multiple spots in the kernel headers
      read_barrier_depends is defined as "do {} while (0)", however we then go
      into the SMP vs non-SMP sections and have the SMP version reference
      read_barrier_depends, and the non-SMP define it as yet another empty
      do/while.
      
      With this commit I went through and cleaned out the duplicate definitions
      and reduced the number of definitions down to 2 per header.  In addition I
      moved the 50 line comments for the macro from the x86 and mips headers that
      defined it as an empty do/while to those that were actually defining the
      macro, alpha and blackfin.
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      8a449718
  2. 18 4月, 2014 1 次提交
  3. 12 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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      arch: Introduce smp_load_acquire(), smp_store_release() · 47933ad4
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      A number of situations currently require the heavyweight smp_mb(),
      even though there is no need to order prior stores against later
      loads.  Many architectures have much cheaper ways to handle these
      situations, but the Linux kernel currently has no portable way
      to make use of them.
      
      This commit therefore supplies smp_load_acquire() and
      smp_store_release() to remedy this situation.  The new
      smp_load_acquire() primitive orders the specified load against
      any subsequent reads or writes, while the new smp_store_release()
      primitive orders the specifed store against any prior reads or
      writes.  These primitives allow array-based circular FIFOs to be
      implemented without an smp_mb(), and also allow a theoretical
      hole in rcu_assign_pointer() to be closed at no additional
      expense on most architectures.
      
      In addition, the RCU experience transitioning from explicit
      smp_read_barrier_depends() and smp_wmb() to rcu_dereference()
      and rcu_assign_pointer(), respectively resulted in substantial
      improvements in readability.  It therefore seems likely that
      replacing other explicit barriers with smp_load_acquire() and
      smp_store_release() will provide similar benefits.  It appears
      that roughly half of the explicit barriers in core kernel code
      might be so replaced.
      
      [Changelog by PaulMck]
      Reviewed-by: N"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Acked-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131213150640.908486364@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      47933ad4
  4. 29 3月, 2012 1 次提交