Re: [PATCH 1/1] rcu/sync: simplify the state machine

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 04/29, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 06:06:04PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > Well, at least WRITE_ONCE()'s look certainly unneeded to me, gp_state
> > is protected by rss_lock.
> >
> > WARN_ON_ONCE(gp_state) can read gp_state lockless, but even in this case
> > I do not understand what READ_ONCE() tries to prevent...
> >
> > Nevermind, this won't hurt and as I already said I don't understand the
> > _ONCE() magic anyway ;)
>
> If I understand correctly, rcu_sync_is_idle() can be inline and returns
> ->gp_state.

Ah, sorry! I didn't mean rcu_sync_is_idle(). To be honeest, I didn't even
notice this change, but it looks obviously fine to me, with or without this
patch.

And yes,

> Without the READ_ONCE(), the compiler might fuse reads from
> consecutive calls to rcu_sync_is_idle() or (under register pressure)
> re-read from it, getting inconsistent results.  For example, this:
>
> 	tmp = rcu_sync_is_idle(rsp);
> 	do_something(tmp);
> 	do_something_else(tmp);
>
> Might become this:
>
> 	do_something(rcu_sync_is_idle(rsp));
> 	do_something_else(rcu_sync_is_idle(rsp));


this is very clear. Even for me ;)

Thanks,

Oleg.