Re: [PATCH 4/8] asm-generic: add atomic-instrumented.h

Mark Rutland
2017-03-29T13:28:43Z

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 02:35:13PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 06:15:41PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > The new header allows to wrap per-arch atomic operations
> > and add common functionality to all of them.
>
> Why a new header instead of putting this in linux/atomic.h?

The idea was that doing it this way allowed architectures to switch over
to the arch_* naming without a flag day. Currently this only matters for
KASAN, which is only supported by a couple of architectures (arm64,
x86).

I seem to recall that there was an issue that prevented us from solving
this with ifdeffery early in linux/atomic.h like:

#ifdef arch_op
#define op(...) ({ \
kasna_whatever(...) \
arch_op(...) \
})
#endif

... but I can't recall specifically what it was.

Thanks,
Mark.