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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	andreyknvl@google.com, glider@google.com, dvyukov@google.com,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mark.rutland@arm.com, will@kernel.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com,
	arnd@arndb.de, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, christophe.leroy@c-s.fr,
	dja@axtens.net, mpe@ellerman.id.au, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	mhiramat@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	christian.brauner@ubuntu.com, daniel@iogearbox.net,
	cyphar@cyphar.com, keescook@chromium.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] asm-generic, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation for bitops
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 08:27:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200120162725.GE2935@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200120144048.GB14914@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 03:19:25PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> > Add explicit KCSAN checks for bitops.
> > 
> > Note that test_bit() is an atomic bitop, and we instrument it as such,
> 
> Well, it is 'atomic' in the same way that atomic_read() is. Both are
> very much not atomic ops, but are part of an interface that facilitates
> atomic operations.

True, but they all are either inline assembly or have either an
implicit or explicit cast to volatile, so they could be treated
the same as atomic_read(), correct?  If not, what am I missing?

(There is one exception, but it is in arch/x86/boot/bitops.h,
which I UP-only, correct?)

						Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-20 14:19 [PATCH 1/5] include/linux: Add instrumented.h infrastructure Marco Elver
2020-01-20 14:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] asm-generic, atomic-instrumented: Use generic instrumented.h Marco Elver
2020-01-20 14:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] asm-generic, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation for bitops Marco Elver
2020-01-20 14:40   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-20 16:27     ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2020-01-20 16:52       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-20 20:23         ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-21  9:15           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-21 14:21             ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-21 14:47               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-21 15:07                 ` Marco Elver
2020-01-21 16:16                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-20 14:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] iov_iter: Use generic instrumented.h Marco Elver
2020-01-20 14:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] copy_to_user, copy_from_user: " Marco Elver
2020-01-20 14:51   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-20 15:05     ` Marco Elver
2020-01-20 14:25 ` [PATCH 1/5] include/linux: Add instrumented.h infrastructure Alexander Potapenko
2020-01-20 14:34 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-20 15:53   ` Marco Elver
2020-01-20 14:45 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-20 14:58   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-20 15:09     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-20 15:40       ` Marco Elver
2020-01-20 16:06         ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-20 16:25           ` Marco Elver
2020-01-20 16:39             ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-21  9:44               ` Marco Elver
2020-01-21 13:01   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-21 16:14     ` Marco Elver

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