Re: [PATCH v5 00/18] Rework READ_ONCE() to improve codegen

[Thomas Gleixner]

Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 17:09, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 03:35:58PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
>> >> Any preferences?
>> >
>> > I suppose DTRT, if we then write the Makefile rule like:
>> >
>> > KCSAN_SANITIZE := KCSAN_FUNCTION_ATTRIBUTES
>> >
>> > and set that to either 'y'/'n' depending on the compiler at hand
>> > supporting enough magic to make it all work.
>> >
>> > I suppose all the sanitize stuff is most important for developers and
>> > we tend to have the latest compiler versions anyway, right?
>>
>> Developers and CI/testing stuff. Yes we really should require a sane
>> compiler instead of introducing boatloads of horrible workarounds all
>> over the place which then break when the code changes slightly.
>
> In which case, let me prepare a series on top of -tip for switching at
> least KCSAN to Clang 11. If that's what we'll need, I don't see a
> better option right now.

And for a change that might make this time GCC people look at their open
bugs. :)

/me mumbles jumplabels and goes back to juggle patches