On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 11:39:33AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 08:29:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 09:26:33AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > If they do not consider their Linux OS running correctly :-) > > Many of them really do not care at all. In fact, some would consider > Linux failing to run as an added bonus. This I think is why we have compiler people in the thread that care a lot more. > > > Nevertheless, yes, control dependencies also need attention. > > > > Today I added one more \o/ > > Just make sure you continually check to make sure that compilers > don't break it, along with the others you have added. ;-) There's: kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h: smp_cond_load_acquire(l, VAL); \ kernel/sched/core.c: smp_cond_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu, !VAL); kernel/smp.c: smp_cond_load_acquire(&csd->node.u_flags, !(VAL & CSD_FLAG_LOCK)); arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c: atomic_cond_read_acquire(&desc.refs, !VAL); kernel/locking/qrwlock.c: atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->cnts, !(VAL & _QW_LOCKED)); kernel/locking/qrwlock.c: atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->cnts, !(VAL & _QW_LOCKED)); kernel/locking/qrwlock.c: atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->cnts, VAL == _QW_WAITING); kernel/locking/qspinlock.c: atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->val, !(VAL & _Q_LOCKED_MASK)); kernel/locking/qspinlock.c: val = atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->val, !(VAL & _Q_LOCKED_PENDING_MASK)); include/linux/refcount.h: smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(); ipc/mqueue.c: smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(); ipc/msg.c: smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(); ipc/sem.c: smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(); kernel/locking/rwsem.c: smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(); kernel/sched/core.c: smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(); kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:__perf_output_begin() And I'm fairly sure I'm forgetting some... One could argue there's too many of them to check already. Both GCC and CLANG had better think about it.