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KCSAN flags accesses to ->rcu_read_lock_nesting as data races, but in the past, the overhead of marked accesses was excessive. However, that was long ago, and much has changed since then, both in terms of hardware and of compilers. Here is data taken on an eight-core laptop using Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10885H CPU @ 2.40GHz with a kernel built using gcc version 9.3.0, with all data in nanoseconds. Unmarked accesses (status quo), measured by three refscale runs: Minimum reader duration: 3.286 2.851 3.395 Median reader duration: 3.698 3.531 3.4695 Maximum reader duration: 4.481 5.215 5.157 Marked accesses, also measured by three refscale runs: Minimum reader duration: 3.501 3.677 3.580 Median reader duration: 4.053 3.723 3.895 Maximum reader duration: 7.307 4.999 5.511 This focused microbenhmark shows only sub-nanosecond differences which are unlikely to be visible at the system level. This commit therefore marks data-racing accesses to ->rcu_read_lock_nesting. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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