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SubjectRe: [PATCH] list: Prevent compiler reloads inside 'safe' list iteration
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 08:47:49 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 03:05:57PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > From: Marco Elver
> > > Sent: 10 March 2020 14:10
> > ...
> > > FWIW, for writes we're already being quite generous, in that plain
> > > aligned writes up to word-size are assumed to be "atomic" with the
> > > default (conservative) config, i.e. marking such writes is optional.
> > > Although, that's a generous assumption that is not always guaranteed
> > > to hold (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190821103200.kpufwtviqhpbuv2n@willie-the-truck/).
> >
> > Remind me to start writing everything in assembler.
>
> Been there, done that. :-/
>
> > That and to mark all structure members 'volatile'.
>
> Indeed. READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() get this same effect, but without
> pessimizing non-concurrent accesses to those same members. Plus KCSAN
> knows about READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), and also volatile members.
>

So I take it from all the above that we should do this.

Did anyone actually review the code? :)

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