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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] binary or instead of logical in timer sync

To: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] binary or instead of logical in timer sync
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:15:31 +0100
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On 3 Aug 2006, at 04:17, Steven Rostedt wrote:

The reading of a timer is determined if 1. the hypervisor is not currently updating it (where it sets the LSB of the version) or 2. the kernel didn't finish reading it before the hypervisor updated it (the kernel version doesn't match the hypervisor version).

But the current code doesn't test the above case. Instead, by using a binary or instead of a logical one, it would only repeat if the hypervisor was updating __and__ we read the version before it started updating (or we read it before we started updating, but the hypervisor finished updating between the first part of the or and the second check).

I don't believe there is a bug here. Are you suggesting that the binary or, used within a logical predicate, behaves as a logical and? That doesn't make sense.

The only reason for using binary operators in those predicates is to avoid extra branches in the generated code which would probably be generated to follow the short-circuiting semantics of the logical operators. In fact, I think a smart optimising compiler would generate the *same* object code regardless of whether we use binary/logical or (but I don't believe gcc is that smart yet!).

 -- Keir


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