Re: [patch 3/3] tick: Annotate tick_do_timer_cpu data races

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, Dec 07 2020 at 13:09, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 10:12:56PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> +            if (data_race(tick_do_timer_cpu) == TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT) {
>
> I prefer the form:
>
>       if (data_race(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT)) {
>
> But there doesn't yet seem to be sufficient data_race() usage in the
> kernel to see which of the forms is preferred. Do we want to bike-shed
> this now and document the outcome somewhere?

Yes please before we get a gazillion of patches changing half of them
half a year from now.

Thanks,

        tglx