locking/atomic, asm-generic, x86: Add comments for atomic instrumentation

The comments are factored out from the code changes to make them
easier to read. Add them separately to explain some non-obvious
aspects.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cc595efc644bb905407012d82d3eb8bac3368e7a.1517246437.git.dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Dmitry Vyukov
2018-01-29 18:26:07 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent a35353bb9e
commit ac605bee0b
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@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
*/
static __always_inline int arch_atomic_read(const atomic_t *v)
{
/*
* Note for KASAN: we deliberately don't use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() here,
* it's non-inlined function that increases binary size and stack usage.
*/
return READ_ONCE((v)->counter);
}