Re: [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE()

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On 11/24/2016 11:25 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Despite living under drivers/ vringh.c is also used as part of the userspace
> virtio tools. Before we can kill off the ACCESS_ONCE()definition in the tools,
> we must convert vringh.c to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE().
> 
> This patch does so, along with the required include of <linux/compiler.h> for
> the relevant definitions. The userspace tools provide their own definitions in
> their own <linux/compiler.h>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vringh.c b/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
> index 3bb02c6..bb8971f 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>   *
>   * Since these may be in userspace, we use (inline) accessors.
>   */
> +#include <linux/compiler.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/vringh.h>
>  #include <linux/virtio_ring.h>
> @@ -820,13 +821,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vringh_need_notify_user);
>  static inline int getu16_kern(const struct vringh *vrh,
>  			      u16 *val, const __virtio16 *p)
>  {
> -	*val = vringh16_to_cpu(vrh, ACCESS_ONCE(*p));
> +	*val = vringh16_to_cpu(vrh, READ_ONCE(*p));
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 
>  static inline int putu16_kern(const struct vringh *vrh, __virtio16 *p, u16 val)
>  {
> -	ACCESS_ONCE(*p) = cpu_to_vringh16(vrh, val);
> +	WRITE_ONCE(*p, cpu_to_vringh16(vrh, val));
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 

Makes sense

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>

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