Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] perf auxtrace: Use WRITE_ONCE() for updating aux_tail
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-06-08 17:04:37
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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-06-08 17:04:37
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linux-arm-kernel, lkml
Em Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 05:31:01PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 06:30:06PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:quoted
Use WRITE_ONCE() for updating aux_tail, so can avoid unexpected memory behaviour. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <redacted>Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Leo, this one is dependendant on the 6/8, will wait for a resubmission, keeping 5/8 tho, as was Acked and applies cleanly, perf/core.
quoted
--- tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h index e625bc76cdde..abc4282f5272 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ static inline void auxtrace_mmap__write_tail(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm, u64 tail) /* Ensure all reads are done before we write the tail out */ smp_mb(); - pc->aux_tail = tail; + WRITE_ONCE(pc->aux_tail, tail); } int auxtrace_mmap__mmap(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm,-- 2.25.1
-- - Arnaldo