arm64/sve: Eliminate data races on sve_default_vl
sve_default_vl can be modified via the /proc/sys/abi/sve_default_vl sysctl concurrently with use, and modified concurrently by multiple threads. Adding a lock for this seems overkill, and I don't want to think any more than necessary, so just define wrappers using READ_ONCE()/ WRITE_ONCE(). This will avoid the possibility of torn accesses and repeated loads and stores. There's no evidence yet that this is going wrong in practice: this is just hygiene. For generic sysctl users, it would be better to build this kind of thing into the sysctl common code somehow. Reported-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591808590-20210-3-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com [will: move set_sve_default_vl() inside #ifdef to squash allnoconfig warning] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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