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Message-ID: <20200727014805.GF9247@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:48:05 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: peterz@...radead.org
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, jakub@...hat.com,
hjl.tools@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kcsan: Add option to allow watcher interruptions
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 01:52:42PM +0200, peterz@...radead.org wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 03:07:50PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:21:31PM +0200, peterz@...radead.org wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:10:13PM +0200, peterz@...radead.org wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:39:09PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >
> > > > > This gets me the following for __rcu_read_lock():
> > > > >
> > > > > 00000000000000e0 <__rcu_read_lock>:
> > > > > e0: 48 8b 14 25 00 00 00 mov 0x0,%rdx
> > > > > e7: 00
> > > > > e8: 8b 82 e0 02 00 00 mov 0x2e0(%rdx),%eax
> > > > > ee: 83 c0 01 add $0x1,%eax
> > > > > f1: 89 82 e0 02 00 00 mov %eax,0x2e0(%rdx)
> > > > > f7: c3 retq
> > > > > f8: 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
> > > > > ff: 00
> > > > >
> > > > > One might hope for a dec instruction, but this isn't bad. We do lose
> > > > > a few instructions compared to the C-language case due to differences
> > > > > in address calculation:
> > > > >
> > > > > 00000000000000e0 <__rcu_read_lock>:
> > > > > e0: 48 8b 04 25 00 00 00 mov 0x0,%rax
> > > > > e7: 00
> > > > > e8: 83 80 e0 02 00 00 01 addl $0x1,0x2e0(%rax)
> > > > > ef: c3 retq
> > > >
> > > > Shees, that's daft... I think this is one of the cases where GCC is
> > > > perhaps overly cautious when presented with 'volatile'.
> > > >
> > > > It has a history of generating excessively crap code around volatile,
> > > > and while it has improved somewhat, this seems to show there's still
> > > > room for improvement...
> > > >
> > > > I suppose this is the point where we go bug a friendly compiler person.
> >
> > Sounds very good! Do you have someone specific in mind?
>
> Jakub perhaps?, Cc'ed
>
> > > Having had a play with godbolt.org, it seems clang isn't affected by
> > > this particular flavour of crazy, but GCC does indeed refuse to fuse the
> > > address calculation and the addition.
> >
> > So there is hope, then!
> >
> > And even GCC's current state is an improvement. Last I messed with this,
> > the ACCESS_ONCE()++ approach generated a load, a register increment,
> > and a store.
> >
> > Do you still have the godbolt.org URLs? I would be happy to file
> > a bugzilla.
>
> https://godbolt.org/z/rP8rYM
Here you go! https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96327
Thanx, Paul
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