sched/preempt: Fix preempt_count manipulations
Vikram reported that his ARM64 compiler managed to 'optimize' away the preempt_count manipulations in code like: preempt_enable_no_resched(); put_user(); preempt_disable(); Irrespective of that fact that that is horrible code that should be fixed for many reasons, it does highlight a deficiency in the generic preempt_count manipulators. As it is never right to combine/elide preempt_count manipulations like this. Therefore sprinkle some volatile in the two generic accessors to ensure the compiler is aware of the fact that the preempt_count is observed outside of the regular program-order view and thus cannot be optimized away like this. x86; the only arch not using the generic code is not affected as we do all this in asm in order to use the segment base per-cpu stuff. Reported-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> Tested-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: a7878709 ("sched, arch: Create asm/preempt.h") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516131751.GH3205@twins.programming.kicks-ass.netSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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