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Since we've vastly expanded the atomic_t interface in recent years the existing documentation is woefully out of date and people seem to get confused a bit. Start a new document to hopefully better explain the current state of affairs. The old atomic_ops.txt also covers bitmaps and a few more details so this is not a full replacement and we'll therefore keep that document around until such a time that we've managed to write more text to cover its entire. Also please, ReST people, go away. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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On atomic bitops.
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While our bitmap_{}() functions are non-atomic, we have a number of operations
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operating on single bits in a bitmap that are atomic.
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API
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---
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The single bit operations are:
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Non-RMW ops:
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test_bit()
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RMW atomic operations without return value:
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{set,clear,change}_bit()
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clear_bit_unlock()
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RMW atomic operations with return value:
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test_and_{set,clear,change}_bit()
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test_and_set_bit_lock()
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Barriers:
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smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
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All RMW atomic operations have a '__' prefixed variant which is non-atomic.
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SEMANTICS
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---------
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Non-atomic ops:
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In particular __clear_bit_unlock() suffers the same issue as atomic_set(),
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which is why the generic version maps to clear_bit_unlock(), see atomic_t.txt.
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RMW ops:
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The test_and_{}_bit() operations return the original value of the bit.
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ORDERING
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--------
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Like with atomic_t, the rule of thumb is:
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- non-RMW operations are unordered;
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- RMW operations that have no return value are unordered;
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- RMW operations that have a return value are fully ordered.
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Except for test_and_set_bit_lock() which has ACQUIRE semantics and
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clear_bit_unlock() which has RELEASE semantics.
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Since a platform only has a single means of achieving atomic operations
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the same barriers as for atomic_t are used, see atomic_t.txt.
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