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Will Deacon 654672d4ba locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic operations
Whilst porting the generic qrwlock code over to arm64, it became
apparent that any portable locking code needs finer-grained control of
the memory-ordering guarantees provided by our atomic routines.

In particular: xchg, cmpxchg, {add,sub}_return are often used in
situations where full barrier semantics (currently the only option
available) are not required. For example, when a reader increments a
reader count to obtain a lock, checking the old value to see if a writer
was present, only acquire semantics are strictly needed.

This patch introduces three new ordering semantics for these operations:

  - *_relaxed: No ordering guarantees. This is similar to what we have
               already for the non-return atomics (e.g. atomic_add).

  - *_acquire: ACQUIRE semantics, similar to smp_load_acquire.

  - *_release: RELEASE semantics, similar to smp_store_release.

In memory-ordering speak, this means that the acquire/release semantics
are RCpc as opposed to RCsc. Consequently a RELEASE followed by an
ACQUIRE does not imply a full barrier, as already documented in
memory-barriers.txt.

Currently, all the new macros are conditionally mapped to the full-mb
variants, however if the *_relaxed version is provided by the
architecture, then the acquire/release variants are constructed by
supplementing the relaxed routine with an explicit barrier.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438880084-18856-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-12 11:58:59 +02:00
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