netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] include/linux/compiler*.h: fix OPTIMIZER_HIDE

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Message-ID: <20190109213543-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 9 Jan 2019 21:36:41 -0500
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] include/linux/compiler*.h: fix OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR

On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 11:35:52AM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 6:44 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > Also for more context, see:
> > commit 7829fb09a2b4 ("lib: make memzero_explicit more robust against
> > dead store elimination")
> 
> By the way, shouldn't that barrier_data() be directly in compiler.h
> too, since it is for both gcc & clang?
> 
> > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> >
> > + Miguel
> > Miguel, would you mind taking this into your compiler-attributes tree?
> 
> Sure, at least we get quickly some linux-next time.


BTW why linux-next? shouldn't this go into 5.0 and stable? It's a bugfix after all.

> Note it would be nice to separate the patch into two (one for the
> comments, another for OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR), and also possibly another
> for barrier_data().
> 
> Cheers,
> Miguel