On 06/06/2017 01:11 PM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> The comments are factored out from the code changes to make them
> easier to read. Add them separately to explain some non-obvious
> aspects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h             |  7 +++++++
>  include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h
> index b7900346c77e..8a9e65e585db 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h
> @@ -23,6 +23,13 @@
>   */
>  static __always_inline int arch_atomic_read(const atomic_t *v)
>  {
> +     /*
> +      * Note: READ_ONCE() here leads to double instrumentation as
> +      * both READ_ONCE() and atomic_read() contain instrumentation.
> +      * This is a deliberate choice. READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() is compiled to a
> +      * non-inlined function call that considerably increases binary size
> +      * and stack usage under KASAN.
> +      */


Not sure that this worth commenting. Whoever is looking into arch_atomic_read() 
internals
probably don't even think about KASAN instrumentation, so I'd remove this 
comment.


>       return READ_ONCE((v)->counter);
>  }
>  

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