Re: [PATCH] seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch()

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:14:49PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> lockless_dereference() is supposed to take pointer not integer.

Urgh :/

Is there any way we can make lockless_dereference() issue a warning if
we don't feed it a pointer?

Would something like so work? All pointer types should silently cast to
void * while integer (and others) should refuse to.

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index b5ff9881bef8..8886de704d33 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -544,6 +544,7 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
  */
 #define lockless_dereference(p) \
 ({ \
+ 	__maybe_unused void * _________p2 = p; \
 	typeof(p) _________p1 = READ_ONCE(p); \
 	smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Dependency order vs. p above. */ \
 	(_________p1); \