# 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-8.1.0-nolibc/aarch64-linux/bin/aarch64-linux-gcc --version # < /opt/cross/kisskb/korg/gcc-8.1.0-nolibc/aarch64-linux/bin/aarch64-linux-ld --version # < git log --format=%s --max-count=1 66be4e66a7f422128748e3c3ef6ee72b20a6197b # < make -s -j 120 ARCH=arm64 O=/kisskb/build/linus-rand_arm64-randconfig_arm64-gcc8 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/korg/gcc-8.1.0-nolibc/aarch64-linux/bin/aarch64-linux- randconfig KCONFIG_SEED=0x9D62A55B # Added to kconfig CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y # yes \n | make -s -j 120 ARCH=arm64 O=/kisskb/build/linus-rand_arm64-randconfig_arm64-gcc8 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/korg/gcc-8.1.0-nolibc/aarch64-linux/bin/aarch64-linux- oldconfig yes: standard output: Broken pipe # make -s -j 120 ARCH=arm64 O=/kisskb/build/linus-rand_arm64-randconfig_arm64-gcc8 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/korg/gcc-8.1.0-nolibc/aarch64-linux/bin/aarch64-linux- /kisskb/src/kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2821:13: warning: 'print_lock_trace' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] static void print_lock_trace(struct lock_trace *trace, unsigned int spaces) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ warning: same module names found: drivers/net/phy/realtek.ko drivers/net/dsa/realtek.ko Completed OK # rm -rf /kisskb/build/linus-rand_arm64-randconfig_arm64-gcc8 # Build took: 0:04:45.986633