RE: [patch 14/30] drm/i915/pmu: Replace open coded kstat_irqs() copy

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 11 2020 at 14:19, David Laight wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner
>> You can't catch that. If this really becomes an issue you need a
>> sequence counter around it.
>
> Or just two copies of the high word.
> Provided the accesses are sequenced:
> writer:
> 	load high:low
> 	add small_value,high:low
> 	store high
> 	store low
> 	store high_copy
> reader:
> 	load high_copy
> 	load low
> 	load high
> 	if (high != high_copy)
> 		low = 0;

And low = 0 is solving what? You need to loop back and retry until it's
consistent and then it's nothing else than an open coded sequence count.

Thanks,

        tglx