linux-kernel - [PATCH/RFC 0/2] followup change for READ_ONCE/WRITE

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Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:15:34 +0100
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] followup change for READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE

Turns out that my last rework for the word size check broke it:

I originally had the size > wordsize check in __read_once_size/
/__write_once_size as empty extern function in a newly created file
lib/access.c and marked it with a  __compiletime_warning.

Unfortunately this broke arm rpcdefconfig due to this line
CFLAGS_font.o := -Dstatic=
in
arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile.
This define made it impossible for the compiler to get rid of
the unused __write_once_size and __read_once_size and the linker
complained about the missing data_access_exceeds_word_size
as the compressed boot thing did not include lib/access.o.

So I wanted to be clever and changed data_access_exceeds_word_size
to a static inline function. Turns out that this actually disabled
the compiletime warning.

Next try, have it as a weak function. This actually does enable
the warning. It will create an empty data_access_exceeds_word_size
function in each object file, though and it will trigger a warning
for arm rpcdefconfig:
  CC      arch/arm/boot/compressed/font.o
include/linux/compiler.h: In function '__write_once_size':
include/linux/compiler.h:231: warning: call to 'data_access_exceeds_word_size' declared with attribute warning: data access exceeds word size and won't be atomic
include/linux/compiler.h: In function '__read_once_size':
include/linux/compiler.h:214: warning: call to 'data_access_exceeds_word_size' declared with attribute warning: data access exceeds word size and won't be atomic

In addition this also causes a compiler error on s390 allyesconfig
with GCOV enabled. (fixed in patch 1).

Christian Borntraeger (2):
  s390/ebdic: disable gcov on ebcdic.o
  compiler.h: Fix word size check for READ/WRITE_ONCE

 arch/s390/kernel/Makefile | 4 ++++
 include/linux/compiler.h  | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

-- 
2.1.4

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