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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Justin He <Justin.He@arm.com>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	James Morse <James.Morse@arm.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
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	nd <nd@arm.com>, kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/7] apei/ghes: Use unrcu_pointer for cmpxchg
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:37:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y0g+wv1AB1dHhvq+@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXGtTRaKCKJnsJ9XcRus+H16mO3TGsz+TFJLraOyvfciCA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:41:06PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> No it definitely does not imply that. A memory clobber is a codegen
> construct, and the hardware could still complete the writes in a way
> that could result in another observer seeing a mix of old and new
> values that is inconsistent with the ordering of the stores as issued
> by the compiler.

Yes, but look at the code. There's a:

	smp_wmb();

which on x86 is

	#define smp_wmb() barrier()

which is

	#define barrier() __asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory")

so there wasn't a hardware memory barrier there in the first place.

Unless ARM does something else in those primitives...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-13 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-10  2:35 [PATCH v8 0/7] Make ghes_edac a proper module Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 1/7] efi/cper: export several helpers for ghes_edac to use Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 2/7] EDAC/ghes: Add a notifier for reporting memory errors Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 3/7] EDAC/ghes: Prepare to make ghes_edac a proper module Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 4/7] EDAC/ghes: Make ghes_edac a proper module to remove the dependency on ghes Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 5/7] EDAC: Add the ghes_get_devices() check for chipset-specific edac drivers Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 6/7] apei/ghes: Use unrcu_pointer for cmpxchg Jia He
2022-10-11 10:33   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-11 14:32     ` Justin He
2022-10-11 14:45       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-12  4:35         ` Justin He
2022-10-12 12:04         ` Justin He
2022-10-13 13:37           ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-13 15:41             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-13 16:37               ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2022-10-13 16:45               ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-13 17:42                 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-14  9:40                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-14 19:40                     ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-14 12:00               ` Justin He
2022-10-14 14:31                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-14 15:10                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-14 15:24                     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-17  8:47                       ` Justin He
2022-10-17  9:27                         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-17 11:57                           ` Justin He
2022-10-13 16:41           ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 7/7] EDAC/igen6: Return consistent errno when another edac driver is enabled Jia He

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