On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:17:12AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 02:36:53PM -0000, tip-bot2 for Will Deacon wrote: > > The following commit has been merged into the locking/kcsan branch of tip: > > > > Commit-ID: cdd28ad2d8110099e43527e96d059c5639809680 > > Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/cdd28ad2d8110099e43527e96d059c5639809680 > > Author: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> > > AuthorDate: Mon, 11 May 2020 21:41:49 +01:00 > > Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > CommitterDate: Tue, 12 May 2020 11:04:17 +02:00 > > > > READ_ONCE: Use data_race() to avoid KCSAN instrumentation > > > > Rather then open-code the disabling/enabling of KCSAN across the guts of > > {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), defer to the data_race() macro instead. > > > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200511204150.27858-18-will@xxxxxxxxxx > > so this commit causes a kernel build slowdown depending on the .config > of between 50% and over 100%. I just bisected locking/kcsan and got > > NOT_OK: cdd28ad2d811 READ_ONCE: Use data_race() to avoid KCSAN instrumentation > OK: 88f1be32068d kcsan: Rework data_race() so that it can be used by READ_ONCE() > > with a simple: > > $ git clean -dqfx && mk defconfig > $ time make -j<NUM_CORES+1> > > I'm not even booting the kernels - simply checking out the above commits > and building the target kernels. I.e., something in that commit is > making gcc go nuts in the compilation phases. > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette For what it's worth, I also noticed the same thing with clang. I only verified the issue in one of my first build targets, an arm defconfig build, which regressed from 2.5 minutes to 10+ minutes. More details available on our issue tracker (Nick did some more profiling on other configs with both clang and gcc): https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1032 More than happy to do further triage as time permits. I do note Marco's message about the upcoming series to eliminate this but it would be nice if this did not regress in the meantime. Cheers, Nathan