Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/6] __wr_after_init: write rare for static allocation | From | Igor Stoppa <> | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:32:21 +0200 |
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On 06/12/2018 11:44, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 03:13:56PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >>> + if (op == WR_MEMCPY) >>> + memcpy((void *)wr_poking_addr, (void *)src, len); >>> + else if (op == WR_MEMSET) >>> + memset((u8 *)wr_poking_addr, (u8)src, len); >>> + else if (op == WR_RCU_ASSIGN_PTR) >>> + /* generic version of rcu_assign_pointer */ >>> + smp_store_release((void **)wr_poking_addr, >>> + RCU_INITIALIZER((void **)src)); >>> + kasan_enable_current(); >> >> Hmm. I suspect this will explode quite badly on sane architectures >> like s390. (In my book, despite how weird s390 is, it has a vastly >> nicer model of "user" memory than any other architecture I know >> of...). I think you should use copy_to_user(), etc, instead. I'm not >> entirely sure what the best smp_store_release() replacement is. >> Making this change may also mean you can get rid of the >> kasan_disable_current(). > > If you make the MEMCPY one guarantee single-copy atomicity for native > words then you're basically done. > > smp_store_release() can be implemented with: > > smp_mb(); > WRITE_ONCE(); > > So if we make MEMCPY provide the WRITE_ONCE(), all we need is that > barrier, which we can easily place at the call site and not overly > complicate our interface with this.
Ok, so the 3rd case (WR_RCU_ASSIGN_PTR) could be handled outside of this function. But, since now memcpy() will be replaced by copy_to_user(), can I assume that also copy_to_user() will be atomic, if the destination is properly aligned? On x86_64 it seems yes, however it's not clear to me if this is the outcome of an optimization or if I can expect it to be always true.
-- igor
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