From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, LKP <lkp@01.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: rcu_read_lock lost its compiler barrier
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 00:23:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190603072339.GH28207@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190603040114.st646bujtgyu7adn@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 12:01:14PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 08:47:07PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >
> > CPU2: if (b != 1)
> > CPU2: b = 1;
>
> Stop right there. The kernel is full of code that assumes that
> assignment to an int/long is atomic. If your compiler breaks this
> assumption that we can kiss the kernel good-bye.
Here you go:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55981
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56028
TL;DR: On x86, of you are doing a plain store of a 32-bit constant
that has bits set only in the lower few bits of each 16-bit half of
that constant, the compiler is plenty happy to use a pair of 16-bit
store-immediate instructions to carry out that store. This is also
known as "store tearing".
The two bugs were filed (and after some back and forth, fixed) because
someone forgot to exclude C11 atomics and volatile accesses from this
store tearing.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-03 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-10 0:57 [rcu] kernel BUG at include/linux/pagemap.h:149! Fengguang Wu
2015-09-10 10:25 ` Boqun Feng
2015-09-10 17:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-09-11 2:19 ` Boqun Feng
[not found] ` <CAJzB8QG=1iZW3dQEie6ZSTLv8GZ3YSut0aL1VU7LLmiHQ1B1DQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-09-11 21:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-09-12 5:46 ` Boqun Feng
2015-09-21 19:30 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-09-21 20:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-02 5:56 ` rcu_read_lock lost its compiler barrier Herbert Xu
2019-06-02 20:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-03 2:46 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-03 3:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-03 4:01 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-03 4:17 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-03 7:23 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2019-06-03 8:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-03 15:26 ` David Laight
2019-06-03 15:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-03 5:26 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-03 6:42 ` Boqun Feng
2019-06-03 20:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-04 14:44 ` Alan Stern
2019-06-04 16:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-04 17:00 ` Alan Stern
2019-06-04 17:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-07 14:09 ` inet: frags: Turn fqdir->dead into an int for old Alphas Herbert Xu
2019-06-07 15:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-06-07 15:32 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-07 16:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-06-07 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-08 15:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-08 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-08 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-08 18:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-08 18:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-06 4:51 ` rcu_read_lock lost its compiler barrier Herbert Xu
2019-06-06 6:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-06 6:14 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-06 9:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-06 9:28 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-06 10:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-06 13:38 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-06 13:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-06 8:16 ` Andrea Parri
2019-06-06 14:19 ` Alan Stern
2019-06-08 15:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-08 15:56 ` Alan Stern
2019-06-08 16:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-03 9:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-06 8:38 ` Andrea Parri
2019-06-06 9:32 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-03 0:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-03 3:03 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-03 9:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-03 15:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-03 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-03 19:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-03 20:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-04 21:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-05 2:21 ` Herbert Xu
2019-06-05 3:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-06 4:37 ` Herbert Xu
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