[PATCH 1/7] General notification queue with user mmap()'able ring buffer

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed May 29 21:02:43 UTC 2019


Jann Horn <jannh at google.com> wrote:

> Does this mean that refcount_read() isn't sufficient for what you want
> to do with tracing (because for some reason you actually need to know
> the values atomically at the time of increment/decrement)?

Correct.  There's a gap and if an interrupt or something occurs, it's
sufficiently big for the refcount trace to go weird.

I've seen it in afs/rxrpc where the incoming network packets that are part of
the rxrpc call flow disrupt the refcounts noted in trace lines.

David



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