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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: 'Marco Elver' <elver@google.com>,
	"intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] list: Prevent compiler reloads inside 'safe' list iteration
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 08:47:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200310154749.GZ2935@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77ff4da6b0a7448c947af6de4fb43cdb@AcuMS.aculab.com>

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 03:05:57PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Marco Elver
> > Sent: 10 March 2020 14:10
> ...
> > FWIW, for writes we're already being quite generous, in that plain
> > aligned writes up to word-size are assumed to be "atomic" with the
> > default (conservative) config, i.e. marking such writes is optional.
> > Although, that's a generous assumption that is not always guaranteed
> > to hold (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190821103200.kpufwtviqhpbuv2n@willie-the-truck/).
> 
> Remind me to start writing everything in assembler.

Been there, done that.  :-/

> That and to mark all structure members 'volatile'.

Indeed.  READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() get this same effect, but without
pessimizing non-concurrent accesses to those same members.  Plus KCSAN
knows about READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), and also volatile members.

							Thanx, Paul
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-10 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-10  9:21 [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] list: Prevent compiler reloads inside 'safe' list iteration Chris Wilson
2020-03-10 11:36 ` David Laight
2020-03-10 11:50   ` Chris Wilson
2020-03-10 12:23     ` David Laight
2020-03-10 12:50       ` Chris Wilson
2020-03-10 12:50       ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-03-10 13:52         ` Mark Rutland
2020-03-10 14:09         ` Marco Elver
2020-03-10 15:05           ` David Laight
2020-03-10 15:47             ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2020-03-12  2:58               ` Andrew Morton
2020-03-10 19:57 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.CHECKPATCH: warning for " Patchwork
2020-03-11  8:13 ` [Intel-gfx] ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success " Patchwork
2020-03-11 12:51 ` [Intel-gfx] ✓ Fi.CI.IGT: " Patchwork

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