From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756497Ab3KFOAq (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2013 09:00:46 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:56676 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756314Ab3KFOAp (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2013 09:00:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 15:00:11 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Vince Weaver Cc: mingo@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, anton@samba.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael@ellerman.id.au, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, VICTORK@il.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, oleg@redhat.com, mikey@neuling.org, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] tools/perf: Add required memory barriers Message-ID: <20131106140011.GL10651@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20131030104246.GH16117@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 08:50:47AM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote: > On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h > > @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int err, char *buf, s > > static inline unsigned int perf_mmap__read_head(struct perf_mmap *mm) > > { > > struct perf_event_mmap_page *pc = mm->base; > > - int head = pc->data_head; > > + int head = ACCESS_ONCE(pc->data_head); > > rmb(); > > return head; > > so is this ACCESS_ONCE required now for proper access to the mmap buffer? Pretty much; otherwise your C compiler is allowed to mess it up. > remember that there are users trying to use this outside of the kernel > where we don't necessarily have access to internal kernl macros. Some of > these users aren't necessarily GPLv2 compatible either (PAPI for example > is more or less BSD licensed) so just cutting and pasting chunks of > internal kernel macros isn't always the best route either. Other license stuff is not my problem; that said I doubt there's much copyright to claim on a volatile cast.