linux-kernel - RE: [RFC] WRITE_ONCE

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Date:   Sun, 19 Apr 2020 18:02:50 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Petko Manolov' <petko.manolov@...sulko.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
CC:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC] WRITE_ONCE_INC() and friends

From: Petko Manolov
> Sent: 19 April 2020 10:45
> Recently I started reading up on KCSAN and at some point I ran into stuff like:
> 
> WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx], ssp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx] + 1);
> WRITE_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq, READ_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq) + 1);

If all the accesses use READ/WRITE_ONCE() why not just mark the
structure field 'volatile'?

	David

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