[PATCH v2 7/8] perf auxtrace: Use WRITE_ONCE() for updating aux_tail

Leo Yan leo.yan at linaro.org
Wed Jun 2 03:30:06 PDT 2021


Use WRITE_ONCE() for updating aux_tail, so can avoid unexpected memory
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
index e625bc76cdde..abc4282f5272 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ 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,
-- 
2.25.1




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