# 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/powerpc-linux/bin/powerpc-linux-gcc --version # < /opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/powerpc-linux/bin/powerpc-linux-ld --version # < git log --format=%s --max-count=1 66be4e66a7f422128748e3c3ef6ee72b20a6197b # < make -s -j 120 ARCH=powerpc O=/kisskb/build/linus_pseries_defconfig+POWERNV=n_powerpc-gcc4.6 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/powerpc-linux/bin/powerpc-linux- pseries_defconfig # Added to kconfig CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV=n # yes \n | make -s -j 120 ARCH=powerpc O=/kisskb/build/linus_pseries_defconfig+POWERNV=n_powerpc-gcc4.6 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/powerpc-linux/bin/powerpc-linux- oldconfig yes: standard output: Broken pipe # make -s -j 120 ARCH=powerpc O=/kisskb/build/linus_pseries_defconfig+POWERNV=n_powerpc-gcc4.6 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/powerpc-linux/bin/powerpc-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/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c: In function 'regmap_raw_read': /kisskb/src/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c:2589:6: warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c: In function '_regmap_raw_write': /kisskb/src/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c:1850:6: warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/net/bridge/br_netlink.c: In function 'br_afspec.isra.28': /kisskb/src/net/bridge/br_netlink.c:648:7: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/kernel/futex.c: In function 'do_futex': /kisskb/src/kernel/futex.c:1645:3: warning: 'oldval' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/kernel/futex.c:1620:6: note: 'oldval' was declared here /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/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c: In function 'univ8250_release_irq': /kisskb/src/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:247:18: warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:227:19: note: 'i' was declared here /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 /kisskb/src/net/core/devlink.c: In function 'devlink_fmsg_snd.constprop.72': /kisskb/src/net/core/devlink.c:4390:6: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c: In function 'nfsd4_encode_components_esc': /kisskb/src/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c:2077:9: warning: 'str' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/fs/udf/unicode.c: In function 'udf_name_conv_char': /kisskb/src/fs/udf/unicode.c:132:8: warning: 'c' 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] WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x362a): Section mismatch in reference from the variable start_here_multiplatform to the function .init.text:.early_setup() The function start_here_multiplatform() references the function __init .early_setup(). This is often because start_here_multiplatform lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of .early_setup is wrong. Completed OK # rm -rf /kisskb/build/linus_pseries_defconfig+POWERNV=n_powerpc-gcc4.6 # Build took: 0:00:53.078658