# \[PATCHv3 02/12\] atomics/x86: reduce arch\_cmpxchg64\*() instrumentation

- From: Mark Rutland \<mark.rutland@arm.com\>
- Date: 2018-07-05 16:41:25 
- List: linux-arm-kernel
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arm-kernel/2018/07/5325482
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arm-kernel/2018/07/5325480/t.md

```text
Currently x86's arch_cmpxchg64() and arch_cmpxchg64_local() are
instrumented twice, as they call into instrumented atomics rather than
their arch_ equivalents.

A call to cmpxchg64() results in:

  cmpxchg64()
    kasan_check_write()
    arch_cmpxchg64()
      cmpxchg()
        kasan_check_write()
        arch_cmpxchg()

Let's fix this up and call the arch_ equivalents, resulting in:

  cmpxchg64()
    kasan_check_write()
    arch_cmpxchg64()
      arch_cmpxchg()

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <redacted>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h
index bfca3b346c74..072e5459fe2f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ static inline void set_64bit(volatile u64 *ptr, u64 val)
 #define arch_cmpxchg64(ptr, o, n)					\
 ({									\
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*(ptr)) != 8);				\
-	cmpxchg((ptr), (o), (n));					\
+	arch_cmpxchg((ptr), (o), (n));					\
 })
 
 #define arch_cmpxchg64_local(ptr, o, n)					\
 ({									\
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*(ptr)) != 8);				\
-	cmpxchg_local((ptr), (o), (n));					\
+	arch_cmpxchg_local((ptr), (o), (n));				\
 })
 
 #define system_has_cmpxchg_double() boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CX16)
-- 
2.11.0
```