From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] counters: Introduce counter_atomic* counters
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:30:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202010071329.90E96DC2@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0939f9d-d60f-7a97-31bd-e527c79ce284@linuxfoundation.org>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:26:53PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 10/7/20 12:11 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> > My instinct is to say leave it "int" and adjust documentation, which is
> > the least disruptive, but I am enticed by the desire to make sure a
> > counter doesn't "misbehave" and go negative when the usage wants it
> > always positive.
> >
>
> I would recommend leaving it as "int". Changing the API to unsigned has
> other ramifications and cascading changes.
>
> My quick search shows me there are 612 atomic_inc_return usages and
> 14 out of them are forcing the return type from int to u32.
>
> For atomic_read the numbers are 51 out of 5833 forcing u32. We have
> couple of options:
>
> 1. Update the documentation since we have more cases where
> int is just fine.
> 2. Add counter_atomic32_inc_return_u32() variant to cover these few
> cases that are forcing the return.
>
> I recommend going with option 1 with Documentation update and add
> option 2 when we convert one of these 60+.
Agreed: 1 seems best, and then later 2 if it feels justified. :)
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-07 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-06 20:44 [PATCH v2 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic counters Shuah Khan
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] counters: Introduce counter_atomic* counters Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 9:04 ` Greg KH
2020-10-08 17:18 ` Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:11 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-07 19:26 ` Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 20:30 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] selftests:lib:test_counters: add new test for counters Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:12 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] drivers/base: convert deferred_trigger_count and probe_count to counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:13 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] drivers/base/devcoredump: convert devcd_count " Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:15 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-07 19:33 ` Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 19:38 ` Johannes Berg
2020-10-07 19:59 ` Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 20:43 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-08 6:42 ` Johannes Berg
2020-10-08 7:37 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] drivers/acpi: convert seqno counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:16 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] drivers/acpi/apei: " Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:17 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] drivers/android/binder: convert stats, transaction_log to counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:18 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-09 12:39 ` Christian Brauner
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] drivers/base/test/test_async_driver_probe: convert to use counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:20 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] drivers/char/ipmi: convert stats " Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:21 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] drivers/misc/vmw_vmci: convert num guest devices counter to counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:27 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-08 17:12 ` Shuah Khan
2020-10-06 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] drivers/edac: convert pci counters " Shuah Khan
2020-10-07 18:28 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-07 18:30 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic counters Kees Cook
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