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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 03/15] sched/core: uclamp: map TASK's clamp values into CPU's clamp groups
On 07-Nov 14:16, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:32:57PM +0000, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
>
> > +static void uclamp_group_put(unsigned int clamp_id, unsigned int group_id)
> > {
> > + union uclamp_map *uc_maps = &uclamp_maps[clamp_id][0];
> > + union uclamp_map uc_map_old, uc_map_new;
> > + long res;
> > +
> > +retry:
> > +
> > + uc_map_old.data = atomic_long_read(&uc_maps[group_id].adata);
> > + uc_map_new = uc_map_old;
> > + uc_map_new.se_count -= 1;
> > + res = atomic_long_cmpxchg(&uc_maps[group_id].adata,
> > + uc_map_old.data, uc_map_new.data);
> > + if (res != uc_map_old.data)
> > + goto retry;
> > +}
>
> Please write cmpxchg loops in the form:
>
> atomic_long_t *ptr = &uclamp_maps[clamp_id][group_id].adata;
> union uclamp_map old, new;
>
> old.data = atomic_long_read(ptr);
> do {
> new.data = old.data;
> new.se_cound--;
> } while (!atomic_long_try_cmpxchg(ptr, &old.data, new.data));
>
>
> (same for all the others of course)

Ok, I did that to save some indentation, but actually it's most
commonly used in a while loop... will update in v6.

Out of curiosity, apart from code consistency, is that required also
specifically for any possible compiler related (mis)behavior ?

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#include <best/regards.h>

Patrick Bellasi

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