Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations

From	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations
Date	2017-03-08 16:50 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 04:27:11PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> > As in my other reply, I'd prefer that we wrapped the (arch-specific)
> > atomic implementations such that we can instrument them explicitly in a
> > core header. That means that the implementation and semantics of the
> > atomics don't change at all.
> >
> > Note that we could initially do this just for x86 and arm64), e.g. by
> > having those explicitly include an <asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h>
> > at the end of their <asm/atomic.h>.
> 
> How exactly do you want to do this incrementally?
> I don't feel ready to shuffle all archs, but doing x86 in one patch
> and then arm64 in another looks tractable.

I guess we'd have three patches: one adding the header and any core
infrastructure, followed by separate patches migrating arm64 and x86
over.

Thanks,
Mark.

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[PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-06 14:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-06 14:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-06 14:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-06 14:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-06 15:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-06 16:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-06 16:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-03-06 17:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-03-06 17:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-06 17:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-03-06 18:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-06 22:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-08 16:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-08 16:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-03-08 17:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-03-08 16:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-03-08 16:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-03-08 19:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] x86, kasan: add KASAN checks to atomic operations Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-08 17:30 +0100

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