From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753170Ab0IWAvz (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:51:55 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:47629 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752626Ab0IWAvB (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:51:01 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, "Paul E. McKenney" , Arnd Bergmann Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/8] rcu: only one evaluation of arg in rcu_dereference_check() unless sparse Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:50:50 -0700 Message-Id: <1285203053-22068-5-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.6 In-Reply-To: <20100923005033.GA22006@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20100923005033.GA22006@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The current version of the __rcu_access_pointer(), __rcu_dereference_check(), and __rcu_dereference_protected() macros evaluate their "p" argument three times, not counting typeof()s. This is bad news if that argument contains a side effect. This commit therefore evaluates this argument only once in normal kernel builds. However, the straightforward approach defeats sparse's RCU-pointer checking, so when __CHECKER__ is defined, the additional pair of evaluations of the "p" argument are performed in order to permit sparse to detect misuse of RCU-protected pointers. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Arnd Bergmann --- include/linux/rcupdate.h | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index 89414d6..03cda7b 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -310,24 +310,32 @@ extern int rcu_my_thread_group_empty(void); * (e.g., __rcu_bh, * __rcu_sched, and __srcu), should this make sense in * the future. */ + +#ifdef __CHECKER__ +#define rcu_dereference_sparse(p, space) \ + ((void)(((typeof(*p) space *)p) == p)) +#else /* #ifdef __CHECKER__ */ +#define rcu_dereference_sparse(p, space) +#endif /* #else #ifdef __CHECKER__ */ + #define __rcu_access_pointer(p, space) \ ({ \ typeof(*p) *_________p1 = (typeof(*p)*__force )ACCESS_ONCE(p); \ - (void) (((typeof (*p) space *)p) == p); \ + rcu_dereference_sparse(p, space); \ ((typeof(*p) __force __kernel *)(_________p1)); \ }) #define __rcu_dereference_check(p, c, space) \ ({ \ typeof(*p) *_________p1 = (typeof(*p)*__force )ACCESS_ONCE(p); \ rcu_lockdep_assert(c); \ - (void) (((typeof (*p) space *)p) == p); \ + rcu_dereference_sparse(p, space); \ smp_read_barrier_depends(); \ ((typeof(*p) __force __kernel *)(_________p1)); \ }) #define __rcu_dereference_protected(p, c, space) \ ({ \ rcu_lockdep_assert(c); \ - (void) (((typeof (*p) space *)p) == p); \ + rcu_dereference_sparse(p, space); \ ((typeof(*p) __force __kernel *)(p)); \ }) -- 1.7.0.6