Re: [PATCH 3/8] x86/xen/p2m: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE

["Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>]

On 01/15/2015 09:58 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> ACCESS_ONCE does not work reliably on non-scalar types. For
> example gcc 4.6 and 4.7 might remove the volatile tag for such
> accesses during the SRA (scalar replacement of aggregates) step
> (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145)
>
> Change the p2m code to replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

> ---
>   arch/x86/xen/p2m.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
> index edbc7a6..cb71016 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
> @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ static bool alloc_p2m(unsigned long pfn)
>   		mid_mfn = NULL;
>   	}
>
> -	p2m_pfn = pte_pfn(ACCESS_ONCE(*ptep));
> +	p2m_pfn = pte_pfn(READ_ONCE(*ptep));
>   	if (p2m_pfn == PFN_DOWN(__pa(p2m_identity)) ||
>   	    p2m_pfn == PFN_DOWN(__pa(p2m_missing))) {
>   		/* p2m leaf page is missing */
>