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From: Justin He <Justin.He@arm.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, James Morse <James.Morse@arm.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>,
	Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>,
	Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>,
	Jan Luebbe <jlu@pengutronix.de>,
	Khuong Dinh <khuong@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	Kani Toshi <toshi.kani@hpe.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devel@acpica.org" <devel@acpica.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	nd <nd@arm.com>, kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v8 6/7] apei/ghes: Use unrcu_pointer for cmpxchg
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:32:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DBBPR08MB4538A9F831FA96545BA35D9FF7239@DBBPR08MB4538.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y0VGkUxpqiIzIFzB@zn.tnic>

Hi Borislav

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 6:34 PM
> To: Justin He <Justin.He@arm.com>
> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>; James Morse <James.Morse@arm.com>;
> Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>; Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> <mchehab@kernel.org>; Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>; Robert Moore
> <robert.moore@intel.com>; Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>; Yazen
> Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>; Jan Luebbe <jlu@pengutronix.de>;
> Khuong Dinh <khuong@os.amperecomputing.com>; Kani Toshi
> <toshi.kani@hpe.com>; Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>;
> linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-edac@vger.kernel.org; devel@acpica.org; Rafael J . Wysocki
> <rafael@kernel.org>; Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>; Jarkko
> Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>; linux-efi@vger.kernel.org; nd <nd@arm.com>;
> kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/7] apei/ghes: Use unrcu_pointer for cmpxchg
> 
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 02:35:58AM +0000, Jia He wrote:
> > ghes_estatus_caches should be add rcu annotation to avoid sparse warnings.
> >    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:733:25: sparse: sparse: incompatible types in
> comparison expression (different address spaces):
> >    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:733:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache
> [noderef] __rcu *
> >    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:733:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache *
> >    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:813:25: sparse: sparse: incompatible types in
> comparison expression (different address spaces):
> >    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:813:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache
> [noderef] __rcu *
> >    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:813:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache *
> >
> > unrcu_pointer is to strip the __rcu in cmpxchg.
> 
> Is this only to shut up sparse or actually fixing anything?

My original purpose is to make it pass the sparse checking. 

--
Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)



  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-11 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-10  2:35 [PATCH v8 0/7] Make ghes_edac a proper module Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 1/7] efi/cper: export several helpers for ghes_edac to use Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 2/7] EDAC/ghes: Add a notifier for reporting memory errors Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 3/7] EDAC/ghes: Prepare to make ghes_edac a proper module Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 4/7] EDAC/ghes: Make ghes_edac a proper module to remove the dependency on ghes Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 5/7] EDAC: Add the ghes_get_devices() check for chipset-specific edac drivers Jia He
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 6/7] apei/ghes: Use unrcu_pointer for cmpxchg Jia He
2022-10-11 10:33   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-11 14:32     ` Justin He [this message]
2022-10-11 14:45       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-12  4:35         ` Justin He
2022-10-12 12:04         ` Justin He
2022-10-13 13:37           ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-13 15:41             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-13 16:37               ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-13 16:45               ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-13 17:42                 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-14  9:40                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-14 19:40                     ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-14 12:00               ` Justin He
2022-10-14 14:31                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-14 15:10                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-14 15:24                     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-17  8:47                       ` Justin He
2022-10-17  9:27                         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-17 11:57                           ` Justin He
2022-10-13 16:41           ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-10  2:35 ` [PATCH v8 7/7] EDAC/igen6: Return consistent errno when another edac driver is enabled Jia He

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