On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 00:17, Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 02:36:53PM -0000, tip-bot2 for Will Deacon wrote:
> > The following commit has been merged into the locking/kcsan branch of tip:
> >
> > Commit-ID:     cdd28ad2d8110099e43527e96d059c5639809680
> > Gitweb:        
> > https://git.kernel.org/tip/cdd28ad2d8110099e43527e96d059c5639809680
> > Author:        Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> > AuthorDate:    Mon, 11 May 2020 21:41:49 +01:00
> > Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> > CommitterDate: Tue, 12 May 2020 11:04:17 +02:00
> >
> > READ_ONCE: Use data_race() to avoid KCSAN instrumentation
> >
> > Rather then open-code the disabling/enabling of KCSAN across the guts of
> > {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), defer to the data_race() macro instead.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
>
> so this commit causes a kernel build slowdown depending on the .config
> of between 50% and over 100%. I just bisected locking/kcsan and got
>
> NOT_OK: cdd28ad2d811 READ_ONCE: Use data_race() to avoid KCSAN instrumentation
> OK:     88f1be32068d kcsan: Rework data_race() so that it can be used by 
> READ_ONCE()
>
> with a simple:
>
> $ git clean -dqfx && mk defconfig
> $ time make -j<NUM_CORES+1>
>
> I'm not even booting the kernels - simply checking out the above commits
> and building the target kernels. I.e., something in that commit is
> making gcc go nuts in the compilation phases.

This should be fixed when the series that includes this commit is applied:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

Thanks,
-- Marco

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