linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/8] kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE

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Message-Id: <1421312314-72330-7-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:58:32 +0100
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	x86@...nel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE

Now that all non-scalar users of ACCESS_ONCE have been converted
to READ_ONCE or ASSIGN once, lets tighten ACCESS_ONCE to only
work on scalar types.
This variant was proposed by Alexei Starovoitov.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/compiler.h | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index a1c81f8..5e186bf 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -447,12 +447,23 @@ static __always_inline void __assign_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int
  * to make the compiler aware of ordering is to put the two invocations of
  * ACCESS_ONCE() in different C statements.
  *
- * This macro does absolutely -nothing- to prevent the CPU from reordering,
- * merging, or refetching absolutely anything at any time.  Its main intended
- * use is to mediate communication between process-level code and irq/NMI
- * handlers, all running on the same CPU.
+ * ACCESS_ONCE will only work on scalar types. For union types, ACCESS_ONCE
+ * on a union member will work as long as the size of the member matches the
+ * size of the union and the size is smaller than word size.
+ *
+ * The major use cases of ACCESS_ONCE used to be (1) Mediating communication
+ * between process-level code and irq/NMI handlers, all running on the same CPU,
+ * and (2) Ensuring that the compiler does not  fold, spindle, or otherwise
+ * mutilate accesses that either do not require ordering or that interact
+ * with an explicit memory barrier or atomic instruction that provides the
+ * required ordering.
+ *
+ * If possible use READ_ONCE/ASSIGN_ONCE instead.
  */
-#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x))
+#define __ACCESS_ONCE(x) ({ \
+	 __maybe_unused typeof(x) __var = 0; \
+	(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x); })
+#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*__ACCESS_ONCE(x))
 
 /* Ignore/forbid kprobes attach on very low level functions marked by this attribute: */
 #ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
-- 
1.9.3

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