[PATCH v3 00/12] Rework READ_ONCE() to improve codegen

From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed Apr 15 2020 - 12:52:53 EST


Hi everyone,

This is version three of the patches I previously posted for improving
the code generation of READ_ONCE() and moving the minimum GCC version
to 4.8:

RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200110165636.28035-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200123153341.19947-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx

Although v2 was queued up by Peter in -tip, it was found to break the
build for m68k and sparc32. We fixed m68k during the merge window and
I've since posted patches to fix sparc32 here:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200414214011.2699-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx

This series is a refresh on top of 5.7-rc1, the main changes being:

* Fix another issue where 'const' is assigned to non-const via
WRITE_ONCE(), this time in the tls code

* Fix READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() abuse in arm64 checksum code

* Added Reviewed-bys and Acks from v2

Hopefully this can be considered for 5.8, along with the sparc32 changes.

Cheers,

Will

Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

--->8

Will Deacon (12):
compiler/gcc: Emit build-time warning for GCC prior to version 4.8
netfilter: Avoid assigning 'const' pointer to non-const pointer
net: tls: Avoid assigning 'const' pointer to non-const pointer
fault_inject: Don't rely on "return value" from WRITE_ONCE()
arm64: csum: Disable KASAN for do_csum()
READ_ONCE: Simplify implementations of {READ,WRITE}_ONCE()
READ_ONCE: Enforce atomicity for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() memory accesses
READ_ONCE: Drop pointer qualifiers when reading from scalar types
locking/barriers: Use '__unqual_scalar_typeof' for load-acquire macros
arm64: barrier: Use '__unqual_scalar_typeof' for acquire/release
macros
compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8
gcov: Remove old GCC 3.4 support

Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +-
arch/arm/crypto/Kconfig | 12 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h | 16 +-
arch/arm64/lib/csum.c | 20 +-
crypto/Kconfig | 1 -
drivers/xen/time.c | 2 +-
include/asm-generic/barrier.h | 16 +-
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 5 +-
include/linux/compiler.h | 129 +++----
include/linux/compiler_types.h | 21 ++
init/Kconfig | 5 +-
kernel/gcov/Kconfig | 24 --
kernel/gcov/Makefile | 3 +-
kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c | 573 ------------------------------
lib/fault-inject.c | 4 +-
net/netfilter/core.c | 2 +-
net/tls/tls_main.c | 2 +-
scripts/Kconfig.include | 6 +
scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig | 2 +-
19 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 719 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c

--
2.26.0.110.g2183baf09c-goog