In preparation for patching the internals of READ_ONCE() itself, replace its usage on the alternatives patching patch with a volatile variable instead.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> --- arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c index d1757ef1b1e7..87bca8d44084 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ #define ALT_ORIG_PTR(a) __ALT_PTR(a, orig_offset) #define ALT_REPL_PTR(a) __ALT_PTR(a, alt_offset) -static int all_alternatives_applied; +/* Volatile, as we may be patching the guts of READ_ONCE() */ +static volatile int all_alternatives_applied; static DECLARE_BITMAP(applied_alternatives, ARM64_NCAPS); @@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ static int __apply_alternatives_multi_stop(void *unused) /* We always have a CPU 0 at this point (__init) */ if (smp_processor_id()) { - while (!READ_ONCE(all_alternatives_applied)) + while (!all_alternatives_applied) cpu_relax(); isb(); } else { @@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ static int __apply_alternatives_multi_stop(void *unused) BUG_ON(all_alternatives_applied); __apply_alternatives(®ion, false, remaining_capabilities); /* Barriers provided by the cache flushing */ - WRITE_ONCE(all_alternatives_applied, 1); + all_alternatives_applied = 1; } return 0; -- 2.27.0.212.ge8ba1cc988-goog _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization