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Message-Id: <b56245b5-c151-5cd0-8765-b57bee56a388@de.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:10:01 +0100
From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: dave@...olabs.net, dbueso@...e.de, dvyukov@...gle.com,
jasowang@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
On 11/24/2016 11:25 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Despite living under drivers/ vringh.c is also used as part of the userspace
> virtio tools. Before we can kill off the ACCESS_ONCE()definition in the tools,
> we must convert vringh.c to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE().
>
> This patch does so, along with the required include of <linux/compiler.h> for
> the relevant definitions. The userspace tools provide their own definitions in
> their own <linux/compiler.h>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
> ---
> drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vringh.c b/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
> index 3bb02c6..bb8971f 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
> *
> * Since these may be in userspace, we use (inline) accessors.
> */
> +#include <linux/compiler.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/vringh.h>
> #include <linux/virtio_ring.h>
> @@ -820,13 +821,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vringh_need_notify_user);
> static inline int getu16_kern(const struct vringh *vrh,
> u16 *val, const __virtio16 *p)
> {
> - *val = vringh16_to_cpu(vrh, ACCESS_ONCE(*p));
> + *val = vringh16_to_cpu(vrh, READ_ONCE(*p));
> return 0;
> }
>
> static inline int putu16_kern(const struct vringh *vrh, __virtio16 *p, u16 val)
> {
> - ACCESS_ONCE(*p) = cpu_to_vringh16(vrh, val);
> + WRITE_ONCE(*p, cpu_to_vringh16(vrh, val));
> return 0;
> }
>
Makes sense
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
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