On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:01:44PM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 02:54:55PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 05:45:03PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:22:26 -0800 > > > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 09:11:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:27:19AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:56:48AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I just took offence at the Changelog wording. It seems to suggest there > > > > > > > actually is a problem, there is not. > > > > > > > > > > > > Quoting the changelog: "Not appropriate for backporting due to failure > > > > > > being unlikely." > > > > > > > > > > That implies there is failure, however unlikely. > > > > > > > > > > In this particular case there is absolutely no failure, except perhaps > > > > > in KCSAN. This patch is a pure annotation such that KCSAN can understand > > > > > the code. > > > > > > > > > > Like said, I don't object to the actual patch, but I do think it is > > > > > important to call out false negatives or to describe the actual problem > > > > > found. > > > > > > > > I don't feel at all comfortable declaring that there is absolutely > > > > no possibility of failure. > > > > > > Perhaps wording it like so: > > > > > > "There's know known issue with the current code, but the *_ONCE() > > > annotations here makes KCSAN happy, allowing us to focus on KCSAN > > > warnings that can help bring about known issues in other code that we > > > can fix, without being distracted by KCSAN warnings that we do not see > > > a problem with." > > > > > > ? > > > > That sounds more like something I might put in rcutodo.html as a statement > > of the RCU approach to KCSAN reports. > > > > But switching to a different situation (for variety, if nothing else), > > what about the commit shown below? > > > > Thanx, Paul > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > commit 35bc02b04a041f32470ae6d959c549bcce8483db > > Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue Feb 18 13:41:02 2020 -0800 > > > > rcutorture: Mark data-race potential for rcu_barrier() test statistics > > > > The n_barrier_successes, n_barrier_attempts, and > > n_rcu_torture_barrier_error variables are updated (without access > > markings) by the main rcu_barrier() test kthread, and accessed (also > > without access markings) by the rcu_torture_stats() kthread. This of > > course can result in KCSAN complaints. > > > > Because the accesses are in diagnostic prints, this commit uses > > data_race() to excuse the diagnostic prints from the data race. If this > > were to ever cause bogus statistics prints (for example, due to store > > tearing), any misleading information would be disambiguated by the > > presence or absence of an rcutorture splat. > > > > This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting > > due to failure being unlikely and due to the mild consequences of the > > failure, namely a confusing rcutorture console message. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c > > index 5453bd5..b3301f3 100644 > > --- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c > > +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c > > @@ -1444,9 +1444,9 @@ rcu_torture_stats_print(void) > > atomic_long_read(&n_rcu_torture_timers)); > > torture_onoff_stats(); > > pr_cont("barrier: %ld/%ld:%ld\n", > > - n_barrier_successes, > > - n_barrier_attempts, > > - n_rcu_torture_barrier_error); > > + data_race(n_barrier_successes), > > + data_race(n_barrier_attempts), > > + data_race(n_rcu_torture_barrier_error)); > > Would it be not worth just fixing the data-race within rcutorture itself? I could use WRITE_ONCE() for updates and READ_ONCE() for statistics. However, my current rule is that diagnostic code that is not participating in the core synchronization uses data_race(). That way, if I do a typo and write to (say) n_barrier_attempts in some other thread, KCSAN will know to yell at me. Thanx, Paul