Am 26.03.2015 um 18:07 schrieb Peter Zijlstra:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:45:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> Stop this idiocy.
>
> Yeah, clearly I can type faster than I can think straight :/
>
>
> In any case, I've the below patch; do you want to take it now or do you
> want me to route it through tip/locking/urgent or something like that?
Its not urgent. Current upstream has a broken check (gcc will not emit the
warning if the function is static). I just fixed the check in my next tree
but I can certainly drop that tree.
>
> ---
> Subject: kernel: Remove atomicy checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:45:37 +0100
>
> The fact that volatile allows for atomic load/stores is a special case
> not a requirement for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(). Their primary purpose is to
> force the compiler to emit load/stores _once_.
>
> So remove the warning as it is correct behaviour. This also implies that
> the u64 case is not 64bit only, so remove the #ifdef so we can generate
> better code in that case.
>
> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/compiler.h | 16 ----------------
> 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> index 1b45e4a0519b..0e41ca0e5927 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> @@ -192,29 +192,16 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
>
> #include <uapi/linux/types.h>
>
> -static __always_inline void data_access_exceeds_word_size(void)
> -#ifdef __compiletime_warning
> -__compiletime_warning("data access exceeds word size and won't be atomic")
> -#endif
> -;
> -
> -static __always_inline void data_access_exceeds_word_size(void)
> -{
> -}
> -
> static __always_inline void __read_once_size(const volatile void *p, void *res, int size)
> {
> switch (size) {
> case 1: *(__u8 *)res = *(volatile __u8 *)p; break;
> case 2: *(__u16 *)res = *(volatile __u16 *)p; break;
> case 4: *(__u32 *)res = *(volatile __u32 *)p; break;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> case 8: *(__u64 *)res = *(volatile __u64 *)p; break;
> -#endif
> default:
> barrier();
> __builtin_memcpy((void *)res, (const void *)p, size);
> - data_access_exceeds_word_size();
> barrier();
> }
> }
> @@ -225,13 +212,10 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
> case 1: *(volatile __u8 *)p = *(__u8 *)res; break;
> case 2: *(volatile __u16 *)p = *(__u16 *)res; break;
> case 4: *(volatile __u32 *)p = *(__u32 *)res; break;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> case 8: *(volatile __u64 *)p = *(__u64 *)res; break;
> -#endif
> default:
> barrier();
> __builtin_memcpy((void *)p, (const void *)res, size);
> - data_access_exceeds_word_size();
> barrier();
> }
> }
>
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