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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-08-11 11:50:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-08-18 15:36:13 +0200 |
| commit | 112dc0c8069e5554e0ad29c58228f1e6ca49e13d (patch) | |
| tree | 8106dcf22bc8e875160dd41e744ce9ac083888d7 /include/linux/compiler.h | |
| parent | f17b3ea3d2df7c9bf3ce1dbd65b5fd7061f8e787 (diff) | |
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locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()
After Peter's commit:
331b6d8c7afc ("locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer type")
... we get a lot of sparse warnings (one for every rcu_dereference, and more)
since the expression here is assigning to the wrong address space.
Instead of validating that 'p' is a pointer this way, instead make
it fail compilation when it's not by using sizeof(*(p)). This will
not cause any sparse warnings (tested, likely since the address
space is irrelevant for sizeof), and will fail compilation when
'p' isn't a pointer type.
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 331b6d8c7afc ("locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer type")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470909022-687-2-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compiler.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index 1bb954842725..436aa4e42221 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -527,13 +527,13 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s * object's lifetime is managed by something other than RCU. That * "something other" might be reference counting or simple immortality. * - * The seemingly unused void * variable is to validate @p is indeed a pointer - * type. All pointer types silently cast to void *. + * The seemingly unused size_t variable is to validate @p is indeed a pointer + * type by making sure it can be dereferenced. */ #define lockless_dereference(p) \ ({ \ typeof(p) _________p1 = READ_ONCE(p); \ - __maybe_unused const void * const _________p2 = _________p1; \ + size_t __maybe_unused __size_of_ptr = sizeof(*(p)); \ smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Dependency order vs. p above. */ \ (_________p1); \ }) |