linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/18] arm64: lto: Strengthen READ_ONCE() to acquire when CLANG

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Message-ID: <20200701170722.4rte5ssnmrn2uqzg@bakewell.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Jul 2020 18:07:25 +0100
From:   Dave P Martin <dave.martin@....com>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
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        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
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        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
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        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] arm64: lto: Strengthen READ_ONCE() to acquire when
 CLANG_LTO=y

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:37:34PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> When building with LTO, there is an increased risk of the compiler
> converting an address dependency headed by a READ_ONCE() invocation
> into a control dependency and consequently allowing for harmful
> reordering by the CPU.
> 
> Ensure that such transformations are harmless by overriding the generic
> READ_ONCE() definition with one that provides acquire semantics when
> building with LTO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h   | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile   |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..515e360b01a1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2020 Google LLC.
> + */
> +#ifndef __ASM_RWONCE_H
> +#define __ASM_RWONCE_H
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CLANG_LTO

Don't we have a generic option for LTO that's not specific to Clang.

Also, can you illustrate code that can only be unsafe with Clang LTO?

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Cheers
---Dave