Re: [PATCH 5/9] mips/gup: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Dec 03 2014 - 19:11:26 EST


On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> ACCESS_ONCE does not work reliably on non-scalar types. For
> example gcc 4.6 and 4.7 might remove the volatile tag for such
> accesses during the SRA (scalar replacement of aggregates) step
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145)
>
> Change the gup code to replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> arch/mips/mm/gup.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/gup.c b/arch/mips/mm/gup.c
> index 06ce17c..8aa50e3 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/mm/gup.c
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ retry:
>
> return pte;
> #else
> - return ACCESS_ONCE(*ptep);
> + return READ_ONCE(*ptep);
> #endif
> }
>
> --
> 1.9.3
>

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