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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, shuah@kernel.org,
	rafael@kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, lenb@kernel.org,
	james.morse@arm.com, tony.luck@intel.com, bp@alien8.de,
	arve@android.com, tkjos@android.com, maco@android.com,
	joel@joelfernandes.org, christian@brauner.io, hridya@google.com,
	surenb@google.com, minyard@acm.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	mchehab@kernel.org, rric@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:52:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202009251650.193E2AD@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1601073127.git.skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 05:47:14PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> -- Addressed Kees's comments:
>    1. Non-atomic counters renamed to counter_simple32 and counter_simple64
>       to clearly indicate size.
>    2. Added warning for counter_simple* usage and it should be used only
>       when there is no need for atomicity.
>    3. Renamed counter_atomic to counter_atomic32 to clearly indicate size.
>    4. Renamed counter_atomic_long to counter_atomic64 and it now uses
>       atomic64_t ops and indicates size.
>    5. Test updated for the API renames.
>    6. Added helper functions for test results printing
>    7. Verified that the test module compiles in kunit env. and test
>       module can be loaded to run the test.

Thanks for all of this!

>    8. Updated Documentation to reflect the intent to make the API
>       restricted so it can never be used to guard object lifetimes
>       and state management. I left _return ops for now, inc_return
>       is necessary for now as per the discussion we had on this topic.

I still *really* do not want dec_return() to exist. That is asking for
trouble. I'd prefer inc_return() not exist either, but I can live with
it. ;)

-- 
Kees Cook

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: rafael@kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	joel@joelfernandes.org, rric@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, minyard@acm.org, corbet@lwn.net,
	surenb@google.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, tkjos@android.com,
	arnd@arndb.de, bp@alien8.de,
	openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, mchehab@kernel.org,
	maco@android.com, christian@brauner.io,
	linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	arve@android.com, james.morse@arm.com, hridya@google.com,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:52:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202009251650.193E2AD@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1601073127.git.skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 05:47:14PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> -- Addressed Kees's comments:
>    1. Non-atomic counters renamed to counter_simple32 and counter_simple64
>       to clearly indicate size.
>    2. Added warning for counter_simple* usage and it should be used only
>       when there is no need for atomicity.
>    3. Renamed counter_atomic to counter_atomic32 to clearly indicate size.
>    4. Renamed counter_atomic_long to counter_atomic64 and it now uses
>       atomic64_t ops and indicates size.
>    5. Test updated for the API renames.
>    6. Added helper functions for test results printing
>    7. Verified that the test module compiles in kunit env. and test
>       module can be loaded to run the test.

Thanks for all of this!

>    8. Updated Documentation to reflect the intent to make the API
>       restricted so it can never be used to guard object lifetimes
>       and state management. I left _return ops for now, inc_return
>       is necessary for now as per the discussion we had on this topic.

I still *really* do not want dec_return() to exist. That is asking for
trouble. I'd prefer inc_return() not exist either, but I can live with
it. ;)

-- 
Kees Cook
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-25 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-25 23:47 [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 01/11] counters: Introduce counter_simple* and counter_atomic* counters Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 02/11] selftests:lib:test_counters: add new test for counters Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 03/11] drivers/base: convert deferred_trigger_count and probe_count to counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 04/11] drivers/base/devcoredump: convert devcd_count " Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 05/11] drivers/acpi: convert seqno counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 06/11] drivers/acpi/apei: " Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 07/11] drivers/android/binder: convert stats, transaction_log to counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47   ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-27 23:39   ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-27 23:39     ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 08/11] drivers/base/test/test_async_driver_probe: convert to use counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 09/11] drivers/char/ipmi: convert stats " Shuah Khan
2020-09-26  0:15   ` Corey Minyard
2020-09-26  2:05     ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 10/11] drivers/misc/vmw_vmci: convert num guest devices counter to counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 11/11] drivers/edac: convert pci counters " Shuah Khan
2020-09-28 12:05   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-25 23:52 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-09-25 23:52   ` [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters Kees Cook
2020-09-26  0:13   ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-26  0:13     ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-26 16:33     ` Kees Cook
2020-09-26 16:33       ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 22:52       ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-28 22:52         ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-26 16:22 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-26 16:22   ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 22:42   ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-28 22:42     ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-26 16:29 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-26 16:29   ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 22:41   ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-28 22:41     ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-28 23:13     ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 23:13       ` Kees Cook
2020-10-06 15:21       ` Shuah Khan
2020-10-06 15:21         ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-27 23:35 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-27 23:35   ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-28 20:34   ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 20:34     ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 21:17     ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-28 21:17       ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-28 23:01       ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-28 23:01         ` Shuah Khan

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