From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
To: elver@google.com
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Subject: [PATCH v3 6/9] seqlock: Require WRITE_ONCE surrounding raw_seqcount_barrier
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 15:27:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191104142745.14722-7-elver@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191104142745.14722-1-elver@google.com>
This patch proposes to require marked atomic accesses surrounding
raw_write_seqcount_barrier. We reason that otherwise there is no way to
guarantee propagation nor atomicity of writes before/after the barrier
[1]. For example, consider the compiler tears stores either before or
after the barrier; in this case, readers may observe a partial value,
and because readers are unaware that writes are going on (writes are not
in a seq-writer critical section), will complete the seq-reader critical
section while having observed some partial state.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/
This came up when designing and implementing KCSAN, because KCSAN would
flag these accesses as data-races. After careful analysis, our reasoning
as above led us to conclude that the best thing to do is to propose an
amendment to the raw_seqcount_barrier usage.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
---
v3:
* Add missing comment that was in preceding seqlock patch.
---
include/linux/seqlock.h | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h
index 61232bc223fd..f52c91be8939 100644
--- a/include/linux/seqlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h
@@ -265,6 +265,13 @@ static inline void raw_write_seqcount_end(seqcount_t *s)
* usual consistency guarantee. It is one wmb cheaper, because we can
* collapse the two back-to-back wmb()s.
*
+ * Note that, writes surrounding the barrier should be declared atomic (e.g.
+ * via WRITE_ONCE): a) to ensure the writes become visible to other threads
+ * atomically, avoiding compiler optimizations; b) to document which writes are
+ * meant to propagate to the reader critical section. This is necessary because
+ * neither writes before and after the barrier are enclosed in a seq-writer
+ * critical section that would ensure readers are aware of ongoing writes.
+ *
* seqcount_t seq;
* bool X = true, Y = false;
*
@@ -284,11 +291,11 @@ static inline void raw_write_seqcount_end(seqcount_t *s)
*
* void write(void)
* {
- * Y = true;
+ * WRITE_ONCE(Y, true);
*
* raw_write_seqcount_barrier(seq);
*
- * X = false;
+ * WRITE_ONCE(X, false);
* }
*/
static inline void raw_write_seqcount_barrier(seqcount_t *s)
--
2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-04 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-04 14:27 [PATCH v3 0/9] Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) Marco Elver
2019-11-04 14:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] kcsan: Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer infrastructure Marco Elver
2019-11-06 9:38 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-11-06 10:03 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-06 19:11 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-06 19:59 ` kbuild test robot
2019-11-06 20:34 ` kbuild test robot
2019-11-07 18:43 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-07 21:08 ` Bhupesh Sharma
2019-11-08 14:23 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-04 14:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] kcsan: Add Documentation entry in dev-tools Marco Elver
2019-11-04 14:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] objtool, kcsan: Add KCSAN runtime functions to whitelist Marco Elver
2019-11-04 14:27 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] build, kcsan: Add KCSAN build exceptions Marco Elver
2019-11-04 14:27 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] seqlock, kcsan: Add annotations for KCSAN Marco Elver
2019-11-05 11:35 ` kbuild test robot
2019-11-05 15:22 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-04 14:27 ` Marco Elver [this message]
2019-11-04 14:27 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] asm-generic, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation for bitops Marco Elver
2019-11-04 14:27 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] locking/atomics, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation Marco Elver
2019-11-04 14:27 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] x86, kcsan: Enable KCSAN for x86 Marco Elver
2019-11-04 16:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-04 18:41 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-04 19:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-05 11:10 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-05 14:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-05 15:25 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-14 18:05 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-14 19:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
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