[PATCH v8 04/12] arm64: support WFET in smp_cond_relaxed_timeout()
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Fri Jan 9 06:17:36 PST 2026
On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 08:49:11PM -0800, Ankur Arora wrote:
> Extend __cmpwait_relaxed() to __cmpwait_relaxed_timeout() which takes
> an additional timeout value in ns.
>
> Lacking WFET, or with zero or negative value of timeout we fallback
> to WFE.
>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora at oracle.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h | 8 ++--
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
Sorry, just spotted something else on this...
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> index 6190e178db51..fbd71cd4ef4e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> @@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ do { \
> extern bool arch_timer_evtstrm_available(void);
>
> /*
> - * In the common case, cpu_poll_relax() sits waiting in __cmpwait_relaxed()
> - * for the ptr value to change.
> + * In the common case, cpu_poll_relax() sits waiting in __cmpwait_relaxed()/
> + * __cmpwait_relaxed_timeout() for the ptr value to change.
> *
> * Since this period is reasonably long, choose SMP_TIMEOUT_POLL_COUNT
> * to be 1, so smp_cond_load_{relaxed,acquire}_timeout() does a
> @@ -234,7 +234,9 @@ extern bool arch_timer_evtstrm_available(void);
> #define SMP_TIMEOUT_POLL_COUNT 1
>
> #define cpu_poll_relax(ptr, val, timeout_ns) do { \
> - if (arch_timer_evtstrm_available()) \
> + if (alternative_has_cap_unlikely(ARM64_HAS_WFXT)) \
> + __cmpwait_relaxed_timeout(ptr, val, timeout_ns); \
> + else if (arch_timer_evtstrm_available()) \
> __cmpwait_relaxed(ptr, val); \
Don't you want to make sure that we have the event stream available for
__cmpwait_relaxed_timeout() too? Otherwise, a large timeout is going to
cause problems.
Will
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