On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:06:07 +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Emilio G. Cota <c...@braap.org> writes:
(snip)
> > diff --git a/accel/tcg/translate-all.c b/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
> > index 3a51d49..20ad3fc 100644
> > --- a/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
> > +++ b/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
> > @@ -1072,7 +1072,8 @@ void tb_phys_invalidate(TranslationBlock *tb,
> > tb_page_addr_t page_addr)
> > /* suppress any remaining jumps to this TB */
> > tb_jmp_unlink(tb);
> >
> > - tb_ctx.tb_phys_invalidate_count++;
> > + atomic_set(&tcg_ctx->tb_phys_invalidate_count,
> > + tcg_ctx->tb_phys_invalidate_count + 1);
>
> We do have an atomic_inc helper for this or we need comment that we only
> have atomic_reads() to worry about hence no races.
>
> Otherwise:
>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
tcg_ctx is per-thread (or otherwise tb_lock is held here), so
yes we only worry here about concurrent atomic_reads. This
is common enough not to need a comment, me thinks.
[we have quite a few more instances of atomic_set(foo, foo + 1),
for instance when incrementing TCGProfile counts.]
Thanks,
Emilio
