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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>,
	Vincent Whitchurch <rabinv@axis.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] buffer: Fix I/O error due to ARM read-after-read hazard
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:23:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191113102357.GA25875@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wg4vi27mnMVgZ-rzcEdDAjTXrY1Jyz3+=5STcY0bw4-jQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:39:01AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:22 AM Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > OK, so this includes changing test_bit() to perform a READ_ONCE.
> 
> That's not going to happen.

Ok, I'll stick my neck out here, but if test_bit() is being used to read
a bitmap that is being concurrently modified (e.g. by set_bit() which boils
down to atomic_long_or()), then why isn't READ_ONCE() required? Right now,
test_bit takes a 'const volatile unsigned long *addr' argument, so I don't
see that you'll get a change in codegen except on alpha and, with this
erratum, arm32.

Will

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-13 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-12 13:02 [PATCH v2] buffer: Fix I/O error due to ARM read-after-read hazard Vincent Whitchurch
2019-11-12 16:08 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-11-12 17:54   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 18:00   ` Will Deacon
2019-11-12 18:22     ` Catalin Marinas
2019-11-12 18:39       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-13 10:23         ` Will Deacon [this message]
2019-11-13 10:31           ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-11-13 10:49             ` Will Deacon
2019-11-14 13:28               ` Herbert Xu
2019-11-20 19:18                 ` Will Deacon
2019-11-21  1:25                   ` Herbert Xu
2019-11-21 16:53                     ` Will Deacon
2019-11-13 16:36           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-13 16:40             ` Linus Torvalds

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