linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] objtool, kcsan: Add volatile read/write instrumentation to whitelist

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Message-ID: <YxjYY6SJhp1PtZos@boqun-archlinux>
Date:   Wed, 7 Sep 2022 10:44:03 -0700
From:   Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] objtool, kcsan: Add volatile read/write
 instrumentation to whitelist

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 07:43:32PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 19:42, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 07:39:03PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > Adds KCSAN's volatile barrier instrumentation to objtool's uaccess
> >
> > Confused. Are things like "__tsan_volatile_read4" considered as
> > "barrier" for KCSAN?
> 
> No, it's what's emitted for READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE().
> 

Thanks for clarification, then I guess better to remove the word
"barrier" in the commit log?

Regards,
Boqun

> Thanks,
> -- Marco