# git rev-parse -q --verify 66be4e66a7f422128748e3c3ef6ee72b20a6197b^{commit} 66be4e66a7f422128748e3c3ef6ee72b20a6197b already have revision, skipping fetch # git checkout -q -f -B kisskb 66be4e66a7f422128748e3c3ef6ee72b20a6197b # git clean -qxdf # < git log -1 # commit 66be4e66a7f422128748e3c3ef6ee72b20a6197b # Author: Linus Torvalds # Date: Mon Jun 3 13:26:20 2019 -0700 # # rcu: locking and unlocking need to always be at least barriers # # Herbert Xu pointed out that commit bb73c52bad36 ("rcu: Don't disable # preemption for Tiny and Tree RCU readers") was incorrect in making the # preempt_disable/enable() be conditional on CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT. # # If CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT isn't enabled, the preemption enable/disable is # a no-op, but still is a compiler barrier. # # And RCU locking still _needs_ that compiler barrier. # # It is simply fundamentally not true that RCU locking would be a complete # no-op: we still need to guarantee (for example) that things that can # trap and cause preemption cannot migrate into the RCU locked region. # # The way we do that is by making it a barrier. # # See for example commit 386afc91144b ("spinlocks and preemption points # need to be at least compiler barriers") from back in 2013 that had # similar issues with spinlocks that become no-ops on UP: they must still # constrain the compiler from moving other operations into the critical # region. # # Now, it is true that a lot of RCU operations already use READ_ONCE() and # WRITE_ONCE() (which in practice likely would never be re-ordered wrt # anything remotely interesting), but it is also true that that is not # globally the case, and that it's not even necessarily always possible # (ie bitfields etc). # # Reported-by: Herbert Xu # Fixes: bb73c52bad36 ("rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree RCU readers") # Cc: stable@kernel.org # Cc: Boqun Feng # Cc: Paul E. McKenney # Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds # < /opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/s390x-linux/bin/s390x-linux-gcc --version # < /opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/s390x-linux/bin/s390x-linux-ld --version # < git log --format=%s --max-count=1 66be4e66a7f422128748e3c3ef6ee72b20a6197b # < make -s -j 120 ARCH=s390 O=/kisskb/build/linus_s390-defconfig_s390x CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/s390x-linux/bin/s390x-linux- defconfig # make -s -j 120 ARCH=s390 O=/kisskb/build/linus_s390-defconfig_s390x CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/s390x-linux/bin/s390x-linux- /kisskb/src/kernel/printk/printk.c: In function 'devkmsg_sysctl_set_loglvl': /kisskb/src/kernel/printk/printk.c:194:16: warning: 'old' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/kernel/time/posix-timers.c:885:1: internal compiler error: unspellable token PRAGMA Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See for instructions. make[3]: *** [/kisskb/src/scripts/Makefile.build:279: kernel/time/posix-timers.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... /kisskb/src/fs/proc/inode.c: In function 'proc_reg_open': /kisskb/src/include/linux/list.h:65:12: warning: 'pdeo' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/fs/proc/inode.c:331:21: note: 'pdeo' was declared here make[2]: *** [/kisskb/src/scripts/Makefile.build:489: kernel/time] Error 2 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... /kisskb/src/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c: In function 'zfcp_erp_setup_act': /kisskb/src/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c:262:2: warning: 'erp_action' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] make[1]: *** [/kisskb/src/Makefile:1071: kernel] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... /kisskb/src/fs/utimes.c:243:1: internal compiler error: unspellable token PRAGMA Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See for instructions. make[2]: *** [/kisskb/src/scripts/Makefile.build:279: fs/utimes.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... /kisskb/src/mm/hugetlb.c: In function 'alloc_pool_huge_page': /kisskb/src/mm/hugetlb.c:1465:5: warning: 'page' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/tun.c: In function 'tun_get_user': /kisskb/src/drivers/net/tun.c:1842:30: warning: 'copylen' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/tun.c:1755:46: warning: 'linear' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] make[1]: *** [/kisskb/src/Makefile:1071: fs] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:179: sub-make] Error 2 Command 'make -s -j 120 ARCH=s390 O=/kisskb/build/linus_s390-defconfig_s390x CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/s390x-linux/bin/s390x-linux- ' returned non-zero exit status 2 # rm -rf /kisskb/build/linus_s390-defconfig_s390x # Build took: 0:00:24.308007