linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix vma->anon_vma check for per-VMA locking; fix anon

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgeMOvL=ko_eruf5St7h0e9dVn4+GMKjcdshTJoxyD8tw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:39:45 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>,
        Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix vma->anon_vma check for per-VMA locking; fix
 anon_vma memory ordering

On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 12:10, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting. I wonder if you considered adding to READ_ONCE() something
> like:
>
>         asm volatile("" : "+g" (x) );
>
> So later loads (such as baz = *ptr) would reload the updated value.

Not necessarily a bad idea.  Although I suspect you'd want to add
*two* of them - on either side - to make sure any previous loads
wouldn't be moved around it either.

                 Linus