Marco Elver d071e91361 kcsan: Change data_race() to no longer require marking racing accesses
Thus far, accesses marked with data_race() would still require the
racing access to be marked in some way (be it with READ_ONCE(),
WRITE_ONCE(), or data_race() itself), as otherwise KCSAN would still
report a data race.  This requirement, however, seems to be unintuitive,
and some valid use-cases demand *not* marking other accesses, as it
might hide more serious bugs (e.g. diagnostic reads).

Therefore, this commit changes data_race() to no longer require marking
racing accesses (although it's still recommended if possible).

The alternative would have been introducing another variant of
data_race(), however, since usage of data_race() already needs to be
carefully reasoned about, distinguishing between these cases likely adds
more complexity in the wrong place.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200331131002.GA30975@willie-the-truck
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-13 17:18:15 -07:00
2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00

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