Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] riscv: Improve zacas fully-ordered cmpxchg()

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] riscv: Improve zacas fully-ordered cmpxchg()
From: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:33:54 +0200
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Albert Ou <aou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx>, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>, Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>, Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>, Leonardo Bras <leobras@xxxxxxxxxx>, Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrea Parri <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> >   amocas.X.aqrl   a5,a4,(s1)
> 
> We won't get release semantics if the exchange fails. Does that matter?

Conditional (atomic) RMW operations are unordered/relaxed on failure, so
we should be okay here; cf. e.g. Documentation/atomic_t.txt.

  Andrea

References:
- [PATCH v4 00/13] Zacas/Zabha support and qspinlocks
  - From: Alexandre Ghiti
- [PATCH v4 06/13] riscv: Improve zacas fully-ordered cmpxchg()
  - From: Alexandre Ghiti
- Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] riscv: Improve zacas fully-ordered cmpxchg()
  - From: Andrew Jones

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