On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:36:33PM +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael, Alice > > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 1:03 PM > > To: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net>; James Hogan <jho...@kernel.org>; > > Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.kel...@intel.com> > > Cc: Ralf Baechle <r...@linux-mips.org>; linux-m...@linux-mips.org; linux- > > ker...@vger.kernel.org; Kirsher, Jeffrey T <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>; > > Shannon > > Nelson <shannon.nel...@oracle.com> > > Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH] MIPS: Provide cmpxchg64 for 32-bit builds > > > > As has previously been said, we're going to be removing the need for > > cmpxchg64. > > But it takes a little bit of time and work to do so. I'm adding the dev > > that is taking > > care of the work back onto this email thread as well so he can see any > > concerns with > > it. > > > > Alice > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Guenter Roeck [mailto:groe...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Guenter Roeck > > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 3:57 PM > > To: James Hogan <jho...@kernel.org> > > Cc: Ralf Baechle <r...@linux-mips.org>; linux-m...@linux-mips.org; linux- > > ker...@vger.kernel.org; Michael, Alice <alice.mich...@intel.com>; Kirsher, > > Jeffrey T > > <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>; Shannon Nelson <shannon.nel...@oracle.com> > > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] MIPS: Provide cmpxchg64 for 32-bit builds > > > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:42:02PM +0000, James Hogan wrote: > > > Hi Guenter, > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 02:37:01PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > Since commit 60f481b970386 ("i40e: change flags to use 64 bits"), > > > > the i40e driver uses cmpxchg64(). This causes mips:allmodconfig > > > > builds to fail with > > > > > > > > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c: > > > > In function 'i40e_set_priv_flags': > > > > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c:4443:2: error: > > > > implicit declaration of function 'cmpxchg64' > > > > > > > > Implement a poor-mans-version of cmpxchg64() to fix the problem for > > > > 32-bit mips builds. The code is derived from sparc32, but only uses > > > > a single spinlock. > > > > > > Will this be implemened for all 32-bit architectures which are > > > currently missing cmpxchg64()? > > > > > No idea. > > > > > If so, any particular reason not to do it in generic code? > > > > > Again, no idea. When the problem was previously seen on sparc32, it was > > implemented there. > > > > > If not then I think that driver should be fixed to either depend on > > > some appropriate Kconfig symbol or to not use this API since it > > > clearly isn't portable at the moment. > > > > > Good point. > > > > > See also Shannon's comment about that specific driver: > > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e7c934d7-e5f4-ee1b-0647-c31a98d9e944@oracle. > > > com > > > > > > > Well, this was an RFC only. Feel free to ignore it. > > > > FWIW, this is the second time that the call was introduced in the i40 > > driver. > > After the first time the code was rewritten to avoid the problem, but now > > it came > > back. Someone must really like it ;-). For my part, I may just blacklist > > the offending > > driver in my builds; that is less than perfect, but much easier than having > > to deal with > > the same problem over and over again. Guess I'll wait for a while and do > > just that if > > the problem isn't fixed in a later RC. > > > > Guenter > > Hi, > > I've been working on re-writing some of the code so that the need for a > compare-and-exchange in the i40e_set_priv_flags() is not necessary. This > mostly involved moving many flags out into an atomic bitops field instead, it > should be posted to IWL soon.
Any update on this? Will a fix to the driver make it into 4.16 or is it going to be too big a change? As far as I can tell from grepping around, of the architectures which support 32-bit SMP with PCI, these ones implement cmpxchg64 on 32-bit: arch/arm arch/ia64 arch/x86 arch/riscv (blindly implements using 64-bit instructions, broken?) arch/parisc (with spinlock) arch/sparc (with spinlock) And these don't: arch/arc arch/mips arch/powerpc arch/sh arch/xtensa (I've excluded arches which are already being removed) Cheers James
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