Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] x86: switch atomic.h to use atomic-instrumented.h

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jun 23 2017 - 15:00:56 EST


On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:54:02 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> * Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Andrew Morton
> > <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:14:16 +0200 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Add arch_ prefix to all atomic operations and include
> > >> <asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h>. This will allow
> > >> to add KASAN instrumentation to all atomic ops.
> > >
> > > This gets a large number of (simple) rejects when applied to
> > > linux-next. Can you please redo against -next?
> >
> >
> > This is based on tip/locking tree. Ingo already took a part of these
> > series. The plan is that he takes the rest, and this applies on
> > tip/locking without conflicts.
>
> Yeah, so I've taken the rest as well, it all looks very clean now. Should show up
> in the next -next, if it passes my (arguably limited) testing.
>
> Andrew, is this workflow fine with you? You usually take KASAN patches, but I was
> unhappy with the atomics instrumention of the earlier patches, and ended up
> reviewing the followup variants, and felt that if I hinder a patchset I might as
> well test and apply it once I'm happy with them! ;-)
>

Sure..