Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools/liblockdep: add userspace version of READ_ONCE

[Sasha Levin]

On 02/11/2016 10:16 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:33:30AM +0100, Alfredo Alvarez Fernandez wrote:
>> From: Alfredo Alvarez Fernandez <alfredoalvarezfernandez@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This was added to the kernel code in 1658d35ead5d ("list: Use
>> READ_ONCE() when testing for empty lists")
>> There's nothing special we need to do about it in userspace.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alfredo Alvarez Fernandez <alfredoalvarezfernandez@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/compiler.h | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/compiler.h b/tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/compiler.h
>> index 6386dc3..fd3e56a 100644
>> --- a/tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/compiler.h
>> +++ b/tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/compiler.h
>> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>>  
>>  #define __used		__attribute__((__unused__))
>>  #define unlikely
>> +#define READ_ONCE(x) (x)
>>  #define WRITE_ONCE(x, val) x=(val)
> 
> I would argue we'd still very much want the volatile cast for both READ
> and WRITE_ONCE().
> 
> Why do these things have different semantics between user and kernel
> space?

You're right. I'll send a patch.


Thanks,
Sasha