Like volatile, the kernel primitives which make concurrent access to data safe (spinlocks, mutexes, memory barriers, etc.) are designed to prevent unwanted optimization. If they are being used properly, there will be no need to use volatile as well. If volatile is still necessary, there is almost certainly a bug in the code somewhere. In properly-written kernel code, volatile can only serve to slow things down. see: Documentation/process/volatile-considered-harmful.rst Signed-off-by: Zhiyuan Dai <daizhiyuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kasan/shadow.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/kasan/shadow.c b/mm/kasan/shadow.c index 7c2c08c..d5ff9ca 100644 --- a/mm/kasan/shadow.c +++ b/mm/kasan/shadow.c @@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ #include "kasan.h" -bool __kasan_check_read(const volatile void *p, unsigned int size) +bool __kasan_check_read(const void *p, unsigned int size) { return check_memory_region((unsigned long)p, size, false, _RET_IP_); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kasan_check_read); -bool __kasan_check_write(const volatile void *p, unsigned int size) +bool __kasan_check_write(const void *p, unsigned int size) { return check_memory_region((unsigned long)p, size, true, _RET_IP_); } -- 1.8.3.1