From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
syzbot <syzbot+3ef049d50587836c0606@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
LKMM Maintainers -- Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: KCSAN: data-race in __alloc_file / __alloc_file
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:43:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whRQuSrstW+cwNmUdLNwkZsKsXuie_1uTqJeKjMBWmr6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANn89i+x7Yxjxr4Fdaow-51-A-oBK3MqTscbQ4VXQuk4pX9aCg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:13 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> wrote:
>
> What about this other one, it looks like multiple threads can
> manipulate tsk->min_flt++; at the same time in faultin_page()
Yeah, maybe we could have some model for marking "this is statistics,
doesn't need to be exact".
> Should we not care, or should we mirror min_flt with a second
> atomic_long_t, or simply convert min_flt to atomic_long_t ?
Definitely not make it atomic. Those are expensive, and there's no point.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-11 20:44 UTC|newest]
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2019-11-10 16:09 ` KCSAN: data-race in __alloc_file / __alloc_file Alan Stern
2019-11-10 19:10 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-11 15:51 ` Alan Stern
2019-11-11 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 17:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-11 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 18:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-11 18:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-11 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 19:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-11 20:43 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-11-11 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 21:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-11 23:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 16:50 ` Kirill Smelkov
2019-11-12 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-17 18:56 ` Kirill Smelkov
2019-11-17 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 18:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 18:59 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-11 18:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-10 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-10 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-10 20:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-10 21:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-10 21:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-11 14:17 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-11 14:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-11 15:10 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-13 0:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-12 19:14 ` Alan Stern
2019-11-12 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 20:29 ` Alan Stern
2019-11-12 20:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 22:05 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-12 21:48 ` Alan Stern
2019-11-12 22:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-12 22:44 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-11-12 23:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-12 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-13 15:00 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-13 16:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-13 21:33 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-13 21:50 ` Alan Stern
2019-11-13 22:48 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-08 13:16 syzbot
2019-11-08 13:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 17:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 17:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 17:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 18:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 20:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 20:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 18:15 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-08 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 19:48 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-08 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 21:57 ` Alan Stern
2019-11-08 22:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-09 23:08 ` Alan Stern
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