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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:53:56 -0700
From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 03/12] scs: add support for stack usage debugging

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 06:46:02PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > +static void scs_check_usage(struct task_struct *tsk)
> > +{
> > +	static unsigned long highest;
> > +	unsigned long used = __scs_used(tsk);
> > +	unsigned long prev;
> > +	unsigned long curr = highest;
> > +
> > +	while (used > curr) {
> > +		prev = cmpxchg(&highest, curr, used);
> 
> I think this can be cmpxchg_relaxed(), since we don't care about ordering
> here afaict.

Sure, I'll change this in v13. Thanks.

Sami

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