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[v3,08/10] perf auxtrace: Use WRITE_ONCE() for updating aux_tail

Message ID 20210704071644.107397-9-leo.yan@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series perf: Refine barriers for AUX ring buffer | expand

Commit Message

Leo Yan July 4, 2021, 7:16 a.m. UTC 
Use WRITE_ONCE() for updating aux_tail, so can avoid unexpected memory
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
index 1a2f42980e3f..d68a5e80b217 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@  static inline void auxtrace_mmap__write_tail(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm, u64 tail)
 
 	/* Ensure all reads are done before we write the tail out */
 	smp_mb();
-	pc->aux_tail = tail;
+	WRITE_ONCE(pc->aux_tail, tail);
 }
 
 int auxtrace_mmap__mmap(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm,