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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vsprintf: Fix memory barriers of ptr_key to have_filed_random_ptr_key
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 7:06 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> - smp_mb();
> + smp_wmb();
> WRITE_ONCE(have_filled_random_ptr_key, true);


> + /* Read ptr_key after reading have_filled_random_ptr_key */
> + smp_rmb();
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> hashval = (unsigned long)siphash_1u64((u64)ptr, &ptr_key);

Hmm. smp_wmb/rmb are basically free on x86, but on some architectures
smp_rmb() in particular can be pretty expensive.

So when you have a "handoff" situation like this, it's _probably_ better to
use use "smp_store_release()" and "smp_load_acquire()". To some degree that
might also be better for documentation purposes, because that's exactly the
"release-acquire" pattern.

That said, I'm not convinced this really matters all that much for a
boot-time flag like this. The race is pretty theoretical.

Linus

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