Re: [PATCH v3.16.y] percpu: make this_cpu_generic_read() atomic w.r.t. interrupts

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:40:22PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Commit e88d62cd4b2f0b1ae55e9008e79c2794b1fc914d upstream.
> 
> As raw_cpu_generic_read() is a plain read from a raw_cpu_ptr() address,
> it's possible (albeit unlikely) that the compiler will split the access
> across multiple instructions.
> 
> In this_cpu_generic_read() we disable preemption but not interrupts
> before calling raw_cpu_generic_read(). Thus, an interrupt could be taken
> in the middle of the split load instructions. If a this_cpu_write() or
> RMW this_cpu_*() op is made to the same variable in the interrupt
> handling path, this_cpu_read() will return a torn value.
> 
> For native word types, we can avoid tearing using READ_ONCE(), but this
> won't work in all cases (e.g. 64-bit types on most 32-bit platforms).
> This patch reworks this_cpu_generic_read() to use READ_ONCE() where
> possible, otherwise falling back to disabling interrupts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> [Mark: backport to v3.16.y]

You sent 2 patches for 3.16.y, did you mean for one of these to be for
3.18.y?

thanks,

greg k-h