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![]() Conditional atomic operations (e.g. cmpxchg()) only provide ordering when the condition holds; when the condition does not hold, the location is not modified and relaxed ordering is provided. Where ordering is needed for failed conditional atomics, it is necessary to use smp_mb__before_atomic() and/or smp_mb__after_atomic(). This is explained tersely in memory-barriers.txt, and is implied but not explicitly stated in the kerneldoc comments for the conditional operations. The lack of an explicit statement has lead to some off-list queries about the ordering semantics of failing conditional operations, so evidently this is confusing. Update the kerneldoc comments to explicitly describe the lack of ordering for failed conditional atomic operations. For most conditional atomic operations, this is written as: | If (${condition}), atomically updates @v to (${new}) with ${desc_order} ordering. | Otherwise, @v is not modified and relaxed ordering is provided. For the try_cmpxchg() operations, this is written as: | If (${condition}), atomically updates @v to @new with ${desc_order} ordering. | Otherwise, @v is not modified, @old is updated to the current value of @v, | and relaxed ordering is provided. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209124010.2096198-1-mark.rutland@arm.com |
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