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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, josh@joshtriplett.org,
	dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:22:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002242122.39257.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100224201229.GA21067@Krystal>

On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > +/**
> > + * RCU_INIT_POINTER - initialize an RCU protected member
> > + * in a statically allocated data structure.
> > + */
> > +#define RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, v) \
> > +             p = (typeof(*v) __force __rcu *)(v)
> 
> Hrm, I'm not sure about this one. It would be better to something closer to
> list.h LIST_HEAD_INIT / LIST_HEAD / INIT_LIST_HEAD.  The first two are for
> static declaration/init, while the last one is for runtime init. I fear that
> your RCU_INIT_POINTER might be semantically confusing between static and dynamic
> initialization usual semantic.

I only had to use it in one place, INIT_STRUCT_PID (see patch 08/10), and
the approach of LIST_HEAD does not seem to work there. I'd certainly
prefer to write it in a way that cannot be used for dynamic initialization,
but could not think of one.

	Arnd


  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-24 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-23  1:04 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/21] v6 add lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/21] rcu: introduce lockdep-based checking to RCU read-side primitives Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:09   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Introduce " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/21] rcu: add lockdep-enabled variants of rcu_dereference() Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:09   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Add " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/21] rcu: integrate rcu_dereference_check() message into lockdep Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:09   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Integrate " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/21] rcu: disable lockdep checking in RCU list-traversal primitives Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:10   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Disable " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/21] net: add checking to rcu_dereference() primitives Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:10   ` [tip:core/rcu] net: Add " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/21] sched: use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference() Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:11   ` [tip:core/rcu] sched: Use " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 11:06   ` [tip:core/rcu] sched, cgroups: Fix module export tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/21] sched: better name for for_each_domain_rd Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:11   ` [tip:core/rcu] sched: Better " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/21] vfs: apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:11   ` [tip:core/rcu] vfs: Apply " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/21] vfs: abstract rcu_dereference_check for files-fdtable use Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:11   ` [tip:core/rcu] vfs: Abstract " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/21] radix-tree: disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:12   ` [tip:core/rcu] radix-tree: Disable " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/21] idr: apply lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() uses Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:12   ` [tip:core/rcu] idr: Apply " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 12/21] security: apply lockdep-based checking " Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:12   ` [tip:core/rcu] security: Apply " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 13/21] rcu: documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:12   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Documentation " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/21] rcu: fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:13   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Fix " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 15/21] rcu: accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:13   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Accelerate " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:05 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/21] rcu: use canonical URL for Mathieu's dissertation Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:13   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Use " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:05 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 17/21] rcu: stop overflowing signed integers Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:14   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Stop " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:05 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 18/21] rcu: Convert to raw_spinlocks Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:14   ` [tip:core/rcu] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:05 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 19/21] rcu: fix deadlock in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU stall detection Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:14   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Fix " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:05 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 20/21] rcu: fix rcutorture mod_timer argument to delay one jiffy Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:14   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Fix " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23  1:05 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 21/21] rcu: add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:15   ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Add " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23 12:59 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/21] v6 add lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-23 13:15   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-02-23 14:35     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23 15:54     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-23 16:16       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-23 17:15         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-23 18:01           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-24 20:03             ` [PATCH 00/10] __rcu annotations, first draft Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 22:18               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25  8:37               ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-24 20:03             ` [PATCH 01/10] rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 20:12               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-02-24 20:22                 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-02-24 20:03             ` [PATCH 02/10] rcu: annotated list rcu code Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 20:15               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-02-24 20:32                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 20:03             ` [PATCH 03/10] cgroups: __rcu annotations Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 20:04             ` [PATCH 04/10] credentials: rcu annotation Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 20:04             ` [PATCH 05/10] perf_event: __rcu annotations Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 20:04             ` [PATCH 06/10] audit: " Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 20:04             ` [PATCH 07/10] module: " Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 20:13               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-24 20:26                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 22:17                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-24 23:07                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 23:59                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 17:06                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 18:10                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-25 20:05                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-26  2:12                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-24 20:04             ` [PATCH 08/10] pid: " Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 20:04             ` [PATCH 09/10] notifiers: " Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 20:04             ` [PATCH 10/10] scheduler: " Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-23 13:28   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/21] v6 add lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 10:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-25 10:01   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-25 12:04     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-25 18:18       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 21:36         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-25 21:22       ` Ingo Molnar

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