# 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/korg/gcc-5.5.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-gcc --version # < /opt/cross/kisskb/korg/gcc-5.5.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-ld --version # < git log --format=%s --max-count=1 66be4e66a7f422128748e3c3ef6ee72b20a6197b # < make -s -j 24 ARCH=powerpc O=/kisskb/build/linus_pseries_le_defconfig+NO_SPLPAR_ppc64le-gcc5 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/korg/gcc-5.5.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux- pseries_le_defconfig # Added to kconfig CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR=n # yes \n | make -s -j 24 ARCH=powerpc O=/kisskb/build/linus_pseries_le_defconfig+NO_SPLPAR_ppc64le-gcc5 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/korg/gcc-5.5.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux- oldconfig yes: standard output: Broken pipe # make -s -j 24 ARCH=powerpc O=/kisskb/build/linus_pseries_le_defconfig+NO_SPLPAR_ppc64le-gcc5 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/korg/gcc-5.5.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux- /kisskb/src/kernel/futex.c: In function 'do_futex': /kisskb/src/kernel/futex.c:1645:17: warning: 'oldval' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] return oldval == cmparg; ^ /kisskb/src/kernel/futex.c:1620:6: note: 'oldval' was declared here int oldval, ret; ^ WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x2f3c): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __boot_from_prom to the function .init.text:prom_init() The function __boot_from_prom() references the function __init prom_init(). This is often because __boot_from_prom lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of prom_init is wrong. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3128): 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. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3164): Section mismatch in reference from the variable start_here_common to the function .init.text:start_kernel() The function start_here_common() references the function __init start_kernel(). This is often because start_here_common lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of start_kernel is wrong. Completed OK # rm -rf /kisskb/build/linus_pseries_le_defconfig+NO_SPLPAR_ppc64le-gcc5 # Build took: 0:03:16.545212