Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] hazptr: Add initial implementation of hazard pointers

[Alan Huang <mmpgouride@gmail.com>]

2024年9月28日 06:18，Jonas Oberhauser <jonas.oberhauser@huaweicloud.com> wrote：
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> Am 9/27/2024 um 10:10 PM schrieb Mathieu Desnoyers:
>> On 2024-09-27 21:23, Jonas Oberhauser wrote:
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>>> That idea seems to be confirmed by this (atrocious, not to be copied!) example:
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>>> int fct_escape_address_of_b(void)
>>> {
>>>      int *a, *b;
>>> 
>>>      do {
>>>          a = READ_ONCE(p);
>>>          asm volatile ("" : : : "memory");
>>>          b = READ_ONCE(p);
>>>      } while (a != b);
>>> 
>>>      // really really hide b
>>>      int **p = &b;
>>>      OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(p);
>>> 
>>>      asm volatile ("" : : : "memory");
>>>      return *b;
>>> }
>>> 
>>> This also does not generate any additional instructions, unlike just using OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(b).
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>>> What is the advantage of defining OPTIMIZE_HIDE_VAR the way it currently works instead of like above?
>> Did you try it on godbolt.org ? Does it have the intended effect ?
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> I certainly did try and certainly read it as having the intended effect, otherwise I wouldn't have written that it seems confirmed.
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> However, just because my eyes read it doesn't mean that's what happened, and even if it happened doesn't mean that it is guaranteed to happen.
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>> By the looks of it, you're just creating another version of @b called
>> "p", which is then never used and would be discarded by further
>> optimization. >
>> I'm unsure what you are trying to achieve here.
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> Simply put I'm trying to let the compiler think that I leaked the address of b. After that, the memory barrier should let it think that the b after the memory barrier might not be the same as the one before it (which was equal to a), forcing it to read from b.
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> However, I suppose on second thought that that might not be enough, because the compiler could still simply do b = a right after exiting the while loop.
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> And that is true no matter what we put behind the while loop or before the condition, as long as the condition compares a and b, right after it the compiler can do b = a. Just took me a while to see :))
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> I'm not sure why gcc does the b=a with the normal OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR but (as far as I read the code) doesn't do it with the above. Maybe just a weird corner case...

Let the p to be a static variable out of the function will make a difference.

Or the following:
	
	int **p = &b;
	barrier_data(p);

also works.

BTW, barrier_data(&b) generates more instructions than godbolt when build the kernel.

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> Have fun,
>  jonas
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