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From: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, jhubbard@nvidia.com,
	ira.weiny@intel.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com, elver@google.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix a data race in put_page()
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 10:23:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D022CBB0-C8EC-4F5A-A0B0-893AA7A014AA@lca.pw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200206145501.GD26114@quack2.suse.cz>



> On Feb 6, 2020, at 9:55 AM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> I don't think the problem is real. The question is how to make KCSAN happy
> in a way that doesn't silence other possibly useful things it can find and
> also which makes it most obvious to the reader what's going on... IMHO
> using READ_ONCE() fulfills these targets nicely - it is free
> performance-wise in this case, it silences the checker without impacting
> other races on page->flags, its kind of obvious we don't want the load torn
> in this case so it makes sense to the reader (although a comment may be
> nice).

Actually, use the data_race() macro there fulfilling the same purpose too, i.e, silence the splat here but still keep searching for other races.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-06 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-06 13:17 Qian Cai
2020-02-06 13:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-06 13:51   ` Qian Cai
2020-02-06 14:55   ` Jan Kara
2020-02-06 14:59     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-06 15:23     ` Qian Cai [this message]
2020-02-06 23:34       ` John Hubbard
2020-02-06 23:36         ` John Hubbard
2020-02-06 23:55         ` Qian Cai
2020-02-07  0:18         ` Qian Cai
2020-02-07  0:27           ` John Hubbard
2020-02-07  0:55             ` Qian Cai
2020-02-07 13:17               ` Marco Elver
2020-02-09  1:44                 ` John Hubbard
2020-02-09  3:10                   ` Qian Cai
2020-02-09  7:12                     ` John Hubbard
2020-02-10  7:48                       ` Marco Elver
2020-02-10 12:16                         ` Qian Cai
2020-02-10 12:58                           ` Marco Elver
2020-02-10 13:36                             ` Qian Cai
2020-02-10 13:38                               ` Marco Elver
2020-02-10 13:55                                 ` Qian Cai
2020-02-10 14:12                                   ` Marco Elver
2020-02-10 14:31                                     ` Qian Cai
2020-02-10 16:23                         ` Qian Cai
2020-02-10 16:33                           ` Marco Elver

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