linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux-next] powerpc: disable sanitizer in irq_soft_mask

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 18:50:54 +0200
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>, npiggin@...il.com,
        atrajeev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lance@...osl.org, paulmck@...nel.org,
        rcu@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] powerpc: disable sanitizer in
 irq_soft_mask_set



Le 23/08/2022 à 10:47, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
> 
> 
> Le 23/08/2022 à 10:33, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
>> Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com> writes:
>>
>> My worry is that this will force irq_soft_mask_set() out of line, which
>> we would rather avoid. It's meant to be a fast path.
>>
>> In fact with this applied I see nearly 300 out-of-line copies of the
>> function when building a defconfig, and ~1700 calls to it.
>>
>> Normally it is inlined at every call site.
>>
>>
>> So I think I'm inclined to revert ef5b570d3700 ("powerpc/irq: Don't open
>> code irq_soft_mask helpers").
> 
> Could you revert it only partially ? In extenso, revert the 
> READ/WRITE_ONCE and bring back the inline asm in irq_soft_mask_return() 
>   and irq_soft_mask_set(), but keep other changes.

I sent a patch doing that.

Christophe