linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] asm-generic, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation for bitops

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Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:15:01 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, andreyknvl@...gle.com,
        glider@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
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        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, christophe.leroy@....fr, dja@...ens.net,
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        mingo@...nel.org, christian.brauner@...ntu.com,
        daniel@...earbox.net, cyphar@...har.com, keescook@...omium.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] asm-generic, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation for
 bitops

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 12:23:59PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> We also don't have __atomic_read() and __atomic_set(), yet atomic_read()
> and atomic_set() are considered to be non-racy, right?

What is racy? :-) You can make data races with atomic_{read,set}() just
fine.

Anyway, traditionally we call the read-modify-write stuff atomic, not
the trivial load-store stuff. The only reason we care about the
load-store stuff in the first place is because C compilers are shit.

atomic_read() / test_bit() are just a load, all we need is the C
compiler not to be an ass and split it. Yes, we've invented the term
single-copy atomicity for that, but that doesn't make it more or less of
a load.

And exactly because it is just a load, there is no __test_bit(), which
would be the exact same load.