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: > > > And perhaps more constructively, we do need to prioritize address and data > > dependencies over control dependencies. For one thing, there are a lot > > more address/data dependencies in existing code than there are control > > dependencies, and (sadly, perhaps more importantly) there are a lot more > > people who are convinced that address/data dependencies are important. > > 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. > > For another (admittedly more theoretical) thing, the OOTA scenarios > > stemming from control dependencies are a lot less annoying than those > > from address/data dependencies. > > > > And address/data dependencies are as far as I know vulnerable to things > > like conditional-move instructions that can cause problems for control > > dependencies. > > > > 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. ;-) Thanx, Paul
