[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm-bufio & dm-verity: use ACCESS_ONCE instead of volatile
Mikulas Patocka
mpatocka at redhat.com
Wed Aug 15 23:08:05 UTC 2012
Hi
This is a simple cleanup patch.
Mikulas
---
dm-bufio & dm-verity: use ACCESS_ONCE instead of volatile
If the variable can be asynchronously modified and we want to prevent
compiler optimizations that could assume that the variable is the same,
use ACCESS_ONCE macro, as documented in Documentation/atomic_ops.txt.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
---
drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 6 +++---
drivers/md/dm-verity.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: linux-3.5.1-fast/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.5.1-fast.orig/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c 2012-08-16 00:46:43.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-3.5.1-fast/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c 2012-08-16 00:49:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static void __cache_size_refresh(void)
BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&dm_bufio_clients_lock));
BUG_ON(dm_bufio_client_count < 0);
- dm_bufio_cache_size_latch = *(volatile unsigned long *)&dm_bufio_cache_size;
+ dm_bufio_cache_size_latch = ACCESS_ONCE(dm_bufio_cache_size);
/*
* Use default if set to 0 and report the actual cache size used.
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ static void __get_memory_limit(struct dm
{
unsigned long buffers;
- if (*(volatile unsigned long *)&dm_bufio_cache_size != dm_bufio_cache_size_latch) {
+ if (ACCESS_ONCE(dm_bufio_cache_size) != dm_bufio_cache_size_latch) {
mutex_lock(&dm_bufio_clients_lock);
__cache_size_refresh();
mutex_unlock(&dm_bufio_clients_lock);
@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_bufio_client_destro
static void cleanup_old_buffers(void)
{
- unsigned long max_age = *(volatile unsigned *)&dm_bufio_max_age;
+ unsigned long max_age = ACCESS_ONCE(dm_bufio_max_age);
struct dm_bufio_client *c;
if (max_age > ULONG_MAX / HZ)
Index: linux-3.5.1-fast/drivers/md/dm-verity.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.5.1-fast.orig/drivers/md/dm-verity.c 2012-08-16 00:46:14.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-3.5.1-fast/drivers/md/dm-verity.c 2012-08-16 00:47:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ static void verity_prefetch_io(struct dm
verity_hash_at_level(v, io->block, i, &hash_block_start, NULL);
verity_hash_at_level(v, io->block + io->n_blocks - 1, i, &hash_block_end, NULL);
if (!i) {
- unsigned cluster = *(volatile unsigned *)&dm_verity_prefetch_cluster;
+ unsigned cluster = ACCESS_ONCE(dm_verity_prefetch_cluster);
cluster >>= v->data_dev_block_bits;
if (unlikely(!cluster))
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