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Re: [PATCH 0/2] two atomic_cmpxchg() related fixes
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Christian Borntraeger |
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Re: [PATCH 0/2] two atomic_cmpxchg() related fixes |
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Wed, 1 Jul 2020 14:06:11 +0200 |
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On 01.07.20 14:01, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 06:50:33 +0200
> Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> The story short: compiler can generate code that does two
>> distinct fetches of *ind_addr for old and _old. If that happens we can
>> not figure out if we had the desired xchg or not.
>>
>> Halil Pasic (2):
>> virtio-ccw: fix virtio_set_ind_atomic
>> s390x/pci: fix set_ind_atomic
>>
>> hw/s390x/s390-pci-bus.c | 16 +++++++++-------
>> hw/s390x/virtio-ccw.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
>> 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>
>>
>> base-commit: 7d3660e79830a069f1848bb4fa1cdf8f666424fb
>
> Have we managed to reach any kind of agreement on this? (A v2?)
>
> We can still get in fixes post-softfreeze, of course.
Unless Halil has a v2 ready,
I think the current patch is fine as is as a fix. I would suggest
to go with that and we can then do more beautification later when
necessary.