Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:24:23PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> We could also provide a parallel implementation of atomic ops based on
> the new compiler builtins (__atomic_load_n and friends):
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html
> and enable it under KSAN. The nice thing about it is that it will
> automatically support arm64 and KMSAN and KTSAN.
> But it's more work.

There's a summary out there somewhere, I think Will knows, that explain
how the C/C++ memory model and the Linux Kernel Memory model differ and
how its going to be 'interesting' to make using the C/C++ builtin crud
with the kernel 'correct.