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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>, Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking/osq_lock: fix a data race in osq_wait_next
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:48:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200130134851.GY14914@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANpmjNNZQsatHexXHm4dXvA0na6r9xMgVD5R+-8d7VXEBRi32w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 02:39:38PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 19:40, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> > It's probably not terrible to put a READ_ONCE() there; we just need to
> > make sure the compiler doesn't do something stupid (it is known to do
> > stupid when 'volatile' is present).
> 
> Maybe we need to optimize READ_ONCE().

I think recent compilers have gotten better at volatile. In part because
of our complaints.

> 'if (data_race(..))' would also work here and has no cost.

Right, that might be the best option.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-30 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-22 16:38 Qian Cai
2020-01-22 16:59 ` Will Deacon
2020-01-22 17:08   ` Qian Cai
2020-01-22 22:38     ` Marco Elver
2020-01-22 23:54       ` Qian Cai
2020-01-23  9:39         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-28  3:11           ` Qian Cai
2020-01-28 11:46             ` Marco Elver
2020-01-28 12:53               ` Qian Cai
2020-01-28 16:52               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-28 16:56               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-29  0:22                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-29 15:29                   ` Marco Elver
2020-01-29 18:40                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-30 13:39                       ` Marco Elver
2020-01-30 13:48                         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-01-31  3:32                           ` Qian Cai
2020-01-29 18:49                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-29 19:26                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-23  9:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-28  3:12         ` Qian Cai
2020-01-28  8:18           ` Marco Elver
2020-01-28 10:10             ` Qian Cai
2020-01-28 10:29               ` Marco Elver
2020-01-22 17:09 ` Peter Zijlstra

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