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Message-ID: <20171030212428.GR12341@eros> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:24:28 +1100 From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc> To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ker.com>, "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@...el.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@...tonmail.ch>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Will Deacon <wilal.deacon@....com>, Chris Fries <cfries@...gle.com>, Dave Weinstein <olorin@...gle.com>, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...il.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] printk: hash addresses printed with %p On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 04:22:44PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:49:34 +1100 > "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc> wrote: > > > > First, the static_key stuff. > > > > DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(no_ptr_secret) : Doesn't sleep, just a > > declaration. > > > > if (static_branch_unlikely(&no_ptr_secret)) {} : Doesn't sleep, just > > some assembler to jump to returning true or false. > > > > static_branch_disable(&no_ptr_secret) : Doesn't sleep, just atomic read > > and set and maybe a WARN_ONCE. > > How quickly do you need static_branch_disable() executed? You could > always pass the work off to a worker thread (that can schedule). > > random_ready_callback -> initiates worker thread -> enables the static branch > > -- Steve thanks Steve, v8 and onward does away with the static branch and uses a global boolean instead. thanks, Tobin.
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