seqlock, kcsan: Add annotations for KCSAN
Since seqlocks in the Linux kernel do not require the use of marked atomic accesses in critical sections, we teach KCSAN to assume such accesses are atomic. KCSAN currently also pretends that writes to `sequence` are atomic, although currently plain writes are used (their corresponding reads are READ_ONCE). Further, to avoid false positives in the absence of clear ending of a seqlock reader critical section (only when using the raw interface), KCSAN assumes a fixed number of accesses after start of a seqlock critical section are atomic. === Commentary on design around absence of clear begin/end markings === Seqlock usage via seqlock_t follows a predictable usage pattern, where clear critical section begin/end is enforced. With subtle special cases for readers needing to be flat atomic regions, e.g. because usage such as in: - fs/namespace.c:__legitimize_mnt - unbalanced read_seqretry - fs/dcache.c:d_walk - unbalanced need_seqretry But, anything directly accessing seqcount_t seems to be unpredictable. Filtering for usage of read_seqcount_retry not following 'do { .. } while (read_seqcount_retry(..));': $ git grep 'read_seqcount_retry' | grep -Ev 'while \(|seqlock.h|Doc|\* ' => about 1/3 of the total read_seqcount_retry usage. Just looking at fs/namei.c, we conclude that it is non-trivial to prescribe and migrate to an interface that would force clear begin/end seqlock markings for critical sections. As such, we concluded that the best design currently, is to simply ensure that KCSAN works well with the existing code. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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