Re: [tip:locking/core] locking/atomics, asm-generic: Add KASAN instrumentation to atomic operations

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* Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I've pushed these two out into tip:locking/core, future (re-)submissions should be
> > based on that tree.
> 
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> It's still in my sight, but was preempted by other tasks. Also I am
> somewhat scared by the amount of changes for the final plan.
> 
> Thanks for taking these 2. That's a good start. Can you please also merge:
> 68c1ed1fdb0a: kasan: Allow kasan_check_read/write() to accept pointers
> to volatiles
> It's small and harmless and will be needed anyway.

Ok, I cherry-picked this one into tip:locking/core as well.

> For the rest of the changes: will it be ok to just resolve the cmpxchg
> macro mess (that caused the crash) and then rebase the current changes
> on top of that? Or we need to do the full overhaul across all arches?
> If we go with full overhaul, would somebody with more kernel expertise
> be willing to do the overhaul?

That's up to Thomas.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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