From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 0/13] Sparse-related updates for 3.13
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:46:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131009224624.GG5790@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131009221805.GA11709@jtriplet-mobl1>
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:18:05PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:29:20PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > This series features updates to allow sparse to do a better job of
> > statically analyzing RCU usage:
> >
> > 1. Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_assign_pointer()'s target to prevent
> > comiler mischief. Also require that the source pointer be from
> > the kernel address space. Sometimes it can be from the RCU address
> > space, which necessitates the remaining patches in this series.
> > Which, it must be admitted, apply to a very small fraction of
> > the rcu_assign_pointer() invocations in the kernel. This commit
> > courtesy of Josh Triplett.
> >
> > 2-13. Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid a number of false positives.
>
> I would suggest moving patch 1 to the end of the series, to avoid
> introducing and subsequently fixing warnings.
That would help with bisectability, will do!
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-09 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-09 21:29 [Bridge] [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 0/13] Sparse-related updates for 3.13 Paul E. McKenney
[not found] ` <1381354186-16285-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [Bridge] [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 03/13] bridge: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [Bridge] [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 04/13] wireless: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [Bridge] [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 11/13] bridge/br_mdb: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [Bridge] [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 12/13] bonding/bond_main: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:18 ` [Bridge] [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 0/13] Sparse-related updates for 3.13 Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 22:46 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-10-09 22:23 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 22:30 ` Josh Triplett
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