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SubjectRe: [PATCH] refcount: always allow checked forms
On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 10:46:41AM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 11:01:02AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > In many cases, it would be useful to be able to use the full
> > sanity-checked refcount helpers regardless of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL, as
> > this would help to avoid duplicate warnings where callers try to
> > sanity-check refcount manipulation.
> >
> > This patch refactors things such that the full refcount helpers were
> > always built, as refcount_${op}_checked(), such that they can be used
> > regardless of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL. This will allow code which *always*
> > wants a checked refcount to opt-in, avoiding the need to duplicate the
> > logic for warnings.
> >
> > There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> > Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> > Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
>
> I dare to give it my
>
> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

Cheers!

> as my POC implementations were crap and Mark's version is much better.

Please don't think that your implementations were bad; I just already had an
idea as to what this could look like.

> > ---
> > include/linux/refcount.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++-------
> > lib/refcount.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> > 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> >
> > Dave pointed out that it would be useful to be able to opt-in to full checks
> > regardless of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL, so that we can simplify callsites where we
> > always want checks. I've spotted a few of these in code which is still awaiting
> > conversion.
>
> The motivation was code like
>
> WARN_ON(refcount_read(&ref));
> if (refcount_dec_and_test(&ref)) { ... }
>
> so the warning is redundant for REFCOUNT_FULL, but I'm going to use the
> _checked versions everywhere the performance of refcounts is not
> critical.

If you will have conversion patches, do you want to pick this up as the start
of a series?

Thanks,
Mark.

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