Re: rcu_read_lock lost its compiler barrier

[Alan Stern]

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 10:19:43AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > 
> > > This seems a sensible change to me: looking forward to seeing a patch,
> > > on top of -rcu/dev, for further review and testing!
> > > 
> > > We could also add (to LKMM) the barrier() for rcu_read_{lock,unlock}()
> > > discussed in this thread (maybe once the RCU code and the informal doc
> > > will have settled in such direction).
> > 
> > Yes.  Also for SRCU.  That point had not escaped me.
> 
> And it does seem pretty settled.  There are quite a few examples where
> there are normal accesses at either end of the RCU read-side critical
> sections, for example, the one in the requirements diffs below.
> 
> For SRCU, srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() have implied compiler
> barriers since 2006.  ;-)
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
> index 5a9238a2883c..080b39cc1dbb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
> +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
> @@ -2129,6 +2129,8 @@ Some of the relevant points of interest are as follows:
>  <li>	<a href="#Hotplug CPU">Hotplug CPU</a>.
>  <li>	<a href="#Scheduler and RCU">Scheduler and RCU</a>.
>  <li>	<a href="#Tracing and RCU">Tracing and RCU</a>.
> +<li>	<a href="#Accesses to User Mamory and RCU">
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> +Accesses to User Mamory and RCU</a>.
---------------------^
>  <li>	<a href="#Energy Efficiency">Energy Efficiency</a>.
>  <li>	<a href="#Scheduling-Clock Interrupts and RCU">
>  	Scheduling-Clock Interrupts and RCU</a>.
> @@ -2521,6 +2523,75 @@ cannot be used.
>  The tracing folks both located the requirement and provided the
>  needed fix, so this surprise requirement was relatively painless.
>  
> +<h3><a name="Accesses to User Mamory and RCU">
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> +Accesses to User Mamory and RCU</a></h3>
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Are these issues especially notable for female programmers?  :-)

Alan