Immunize rcu_dereference() against crazy compiler writers

Turns out that compiler writers are a bit more aggressive about optimizing
than one might expect.  This patch prevents a number of such optimizations
from messing up rcu_deference().  This is not merely a theoretical problem, as
evidenced by the rmb() in mce_log().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 76c1a530edc5..cc24a01df940 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -231,6 +231,18 @@ extern struct lockdep_map rcu_lock_map;
                 local_bh_enable(); \
         } while(0)
 
+/*
+ * Prevent the compiler from merging or refetching accesses.  The compiler
+ * is also forbidden from reordering successive instances of ACCESS_ONCE(),
+ * but only when the compiler is aware of some particular ordering.  One way
+ * to make the compiler aware of ordering is to put the two invocations of
+ * ACCESS_ONCE() in different C statements.
+ *
+ * This macro does absolutely -nothing- to prevent the CPU from reordering,
+ * merging, or refetching absolutely anything at any time.
+ */
+#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x))
+
 /**
  * rcu_dereference - fetch an RCU-protected pointer in an
  * RCU read-side critical section.  This pointer may later
@@ -242,7 +254,7 @@ extern struct lockdep_map rcu_lock_map;
  */
 
 #define rcu_dereference(p)     ({ \
-                                typeof(p) _________p1 = p; \
+                                typeof(p) _________p1 = ACCESS_ONCE(p); \
                                 smp_read_barrier_depends(); \
                                 (_________p1); \
                                 })