On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 04:36:20PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 04:33:16PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 08:29:05AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > The ring-buffer code uses control dependencies, and the shiny new
> > > READ_ONCE_CTRL() is now in mainline. I was idly curious about whether
> > > the write side could use smp_store_release(), and I found this:
> > >
> > > static inline void perf_mmap__write_tail(struct perf_mmap *md, u64 tail)
> > > {
> > > struct perf_event_mmap_page *pc = md->base;
> > >
> > > /*
> > > * ensure all reads are done before we write the tail out.
> > > */
> > > mb();
> > > pc->data_tail = tail;
> > > }
> > >
> > > I see mb() rather than smp_mb(). Did I find the correct code for the
> > > write side? If so, why mb() rather than smp_mb()? To serialize against
> > > MMIO interactions with hardware counters or some such?
> >
> > This is userspace, it doesn't patch itself depending on if its run on an
> > SMP machine or not.
>
> Yup, and that's why mb() expands to dmb instead of dsb in
> tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h (I see there's an XXX: comment
> there asking about the difference).
Thank you both! I will therefore refrain from attempting to restrict
READ_ONCE_CTRL() to pairing with smp_store_release(). ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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