On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:37:34PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
When building with LTO, there is an increased risk of the compiler
converting an address dependency headed by a READ_ONCE() invocation
into a control dependency and consequently allowing for harmful
reordering by the CPU.
Ensure that such transformations are harmless by overriding the generic
READ_ONCE() definition with one that provides acquire semantics when
building with LTO.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile | 2 +-
3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..515e360b01a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2020 Google LLC.
+ */
+#ifndef __ASM_RWONCE_H
+#define __ASM_RWONCE_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CLANG_LTO
Don't we have a generic option for LTO that's not specific to Clang.
Also, can you illustrate code that can only be unsafe with Clang LTO?
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Cheers
---Dave