From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606D4C43334 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230173AbiGTQuw (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:50:52 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48576 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229862AbiGTQuw (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:50:52 -0400 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4601:e00::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1821866ACF; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C8439B82152; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8AB7BC3411E; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:50:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1658335848; bh=99nw1jYbMX7Wt38g13l7SpdSTD6XHu02dXxP8XSMYEI=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=uNkB1dR3O/0qAwSMid/mp2RLnfxMVbkagceLMWQkGb/o2wWbkSCxchNEB/1IBAC5M QpQTpHhAtGNzr8EC8rSKYANGJIV03EHZuBSZbruEvGxUDCmkNaWnk3soVZjJFiMJMV ssx73GabwApJPqL3xhqcHB+dkg84m3h25NQXOpmzSpR1fd/XnhEOS/6jxzgjDfT002 tnyJpKKCUdHsLDEl2CC+YR3EjYN7e2cOK1D1CwO9HHPcbUSJOjutJEYYL7GYetlAaz HR2K6rbdLLu6mAE0BOlTnwCMNW5wytLDN2+wroViawZ6o5wPneLTNjbfQ6fxAMhPgo 0BJR0uy2Vk+GQ== Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:50:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 02/16] rv: Add runtime reactors interface Content-Language: en-US To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck , Guenter Roeck , Jonathan Corbet , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Will Deacon , Catalin Marinas , Marco Elver , Dmitry Vyukov , "Paul E. McKenney" , Shuah Khan , Gabriele Paoloni , Juri Lelli , Clark Williams , Tao Zhou , Randy Dunlap , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org References: <4b5f93e3186b067073c1692d4c2b50d0b42101d5.1658244826.git.bristot@kernel.org> <20220720124133.3cdd2c44@gandalf.local.home> From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira In-Reply-To: <20220720124133.3cdd2c44@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org On 7/20/22 18:41, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:27:07 +0200 > Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote: > >> +/* >> + * reacting_on interface. >> + */ >> +static ssize_t reacting_on_read_data(struct file *filp, >> + char __user *user_buf, >> + size_t count, loff_t *ppos) >> +{ >> + char *buff; >> + >> + mutex_lock(&rv_interface_lock); >> + buff = reacting_on ? "1\n" : "0\n"; >> + mutex_unlock(&rv_interface_lock); > Again, no need for the locks, but perhaps just to keep things sane: > > buf = READ_ONCE(reacting_on) ? "1\n" : "0\n"; So, for all files that only read/write a single variable, use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE without locks? (and in all usage of that variable too). -- Daniel > -- Steve >