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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 13/13] rcutorture: formal: prepare for ACCESS_ONCE() removal
Date: Mon,  9 Oct 2017 19:28:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1507573730-8083-14-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1507573730-8083-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com>

For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't currently harmful.

However, for some features it is necessary to instrument reads and
writes separately, which is not possible with ACCESS_ONCE(). This
distinction is critical to correct operation.

The bulk of the kernel code can be transformed via Coccinelle to use
{READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), though this only modifies users of ACCESS_ONCE(),
and not the implementation itself. As such, it has the potential to
break homebrew ACCESS_ONCE() macros seen in some user code in the kernel
tree (e.g. the virtio code, as fixed in commit ea9156fb3b71d9f7).

To avoid fragility if/when that transformation occurs, this patch
reworks the rcutorture formal tests to use an intermediate
__ACCESS_ONCE() helper, which will avoid {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() being
turned into tautological definitions. There should be no functional
change as a result of this patch.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/formal/srcu-cbmc/src/barriers.h | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/formal/srcu-cbmc/src/barriers.h b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/formal/srcu-cbmc/src/barriers.h
index 6687acc..ee4e4f8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/formal/srcu-cbmc/src/barriers.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/formal/srcu-cbmc/src/barriers.h
@@ -34,8 +34,9 @@
 #define rs_smp_mb() do {} while (0)
 #endif
 
-#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *) &(x))
-#define READ_ONCE(x) ACCESS_ONCE(x)
-#define WRITE_ONCE(x, val) (ACCESS_ONCE(x) = (val))
+#define __ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *) &(x))
+#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) __ACCESS_ONCE(x)
+#define READ_ONCE(x) __ACCESS_ONCE(x)
+#define WRITE_ONCE(x, val) (__ACCESS_ONCE(x) = (val))
 
 #endif
-- 
1.9.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-09 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-09 18:28 [PATCH 00/13] Preparatory work to kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 01/13] dm integrity: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 02/13] EDAC, altera: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 23:12   ` Thor Thayer
2017-10-10  9:30     ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 03/13] firmware/ivc: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 04/13] fs: dcache: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 05/13] fs: ncpfs: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 06/13] media: dvb_ringbuffer: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 07/13] net: netlink/netfilter: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 08/13] net/ipv4/tcp_input.c: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 19:03   ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 09/13] net: average: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-10  9:28   ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 10/13] samples: mic/mpssd/mpssd.c: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 11/13] selftests/powerpc: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-10  0:45   ` Michael Ellerman
2017-10-10  9:32     ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` [PATCH 12/13] workqueue: " Mark Rutland
2017-10-10 14:06   ` Tejun Heo
2017-10-10 16:21     ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 18:28 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2017-10-09 19:51   ` [PATCH 13/13] rcutorture: formal: prepare for ACCESS_ONCE() removal Paul E. McKenney
2017-10-10  9:54     ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-10 12:47       ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-10-10 12:50         ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-10 14:52           ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-10-10 16:24             ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-10 16:35               ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-10-10 16:27             ` Joe Perches
2017-10-10 16:35               ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-10-10 16:41               ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-10 16:57                 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Joe Perches
2017-10-10 16:57                   ` Joe Perches
2017-10-10 17:06                   ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Mark Rutland
2017-10-10 17:06                     ` Mark Rutland
2017-10-09 20:02 ` [PATCH 00/13] Preparatory work to kill off ACCESS_ONCE() Paul E. McKenney

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