Re: [PATCH 7/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:18:48AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:13:59AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On 01/26/2010 11:01 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > So, may be it considers you are applying the address space overriding
> > > to the pointer to the type and not to the type itself.
> > > 
> > > Consider:
> > > 
> > > 	int __percpu i;
> > > 
> > > What you do above *might* be considered as if SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR
> > > returns something of a type:
> > > 
> > > 	int * __percpu i;
> > > 
> > > So the pointer is in the normal address space, but its content is in
> > > __percpu address space.
> > > 
> > > What if you do this:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > #define SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(__p, __offset)      ({                      \
> > >       __verify_pcpu_ptr((__p));                                       \
> > >       RELOC_HIDE((__p), (__offset)); \
> > > })
> > > 
> > > #define per_cpu(var, cpu) \
> > >       (typeof(var) __kernel __force)(*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(&(var), per_cpu_offset(cpu)))
> > 
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:1149:20: warning: cast to non-scalar
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:1149:20: error: strange non-value function or array
> >   CC      arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.o
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c: In function 'cpu_init':
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:1149: error: cast specifies array type
> > 
> > Can't cast that way.  :-(
> 
> 
> What about this? It doesn't use direct cast to scalar but should
> create a pointer type to kernel space datas:
> 
> 
> #define kernel_space_t(var)	\
> 	(typeof(var)	__kernel __force)


Should be typeof(*var)



> 
> #define SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(__p, __offset) ({                              \
>         __verify_pcpu_ptr((__p));                                       \
>         RELOC_HIDE((typeof(*(kernel_space_t(var)) __kernel __force *)(__p), (__offset)); \
> })
> 
> #define per_cpu(var, cpu) \
>         (*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(&(var), per_cpu_offset(cpu)))
>