From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
ebiederm@xmission.com, tytso@mit.edu, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com,
aelder@sgi.com, hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
mingo@redhat.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
borislav.petkov@amd.com, ying.huang@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org,
neilb@suse.de, cl@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:19:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100126001901.GI5087@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264432935-10453-8-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:22:14AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint.
>
> These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
> in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
> through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds.
>
> per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned, cpu) is replaced with
> &per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned[0], cpu). This is the same to the compiler
> but allows per_cpu() macro to correctly drop __percpu designation for
> the returned pointer.
Ouch... It's unpleasant to see such workaround that messes up the
code just to make sparse happy.
I guess __percpu is an address_space attribute? Is there no
way to force the address space change directly from the
per_cpu() macro?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-26 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1264432935-10453-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-01-25 15:22 ` [PATCH 1/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems Tejun Heo
2010-01-25 15:22 ` [PATCH 2/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to fs Tejun Heo
2010-01-25 15:22 ` [PATCH 3/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net Tejun Heo
2010-01-25 21:32 ` David Miller
2010-01-25 15:22 ` [PATCH 4/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net drivers Tejun Heo
2010-01-25 15:22 ` [PATCH 5/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to x86 Tejun Heo
2010-01-25 15:22 ` [PATCH 6/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to trace Tejun Heo
2010-01-25 15:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-25 15:22 ` [PATCH 7/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint Tejun Heo
2010-01-26 0:19 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2010-01-26 0:48 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-26 1:02 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-26 1:19 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-26 2:01 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-26 2:10 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-26 2:13 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-26 2:18 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-26 2:22 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-26 2:34 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-26 2:35 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-26 2:47 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-26 1:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-26 2:06 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-26 2:04 ` Al Viro
2010-01-26 2:16 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-26 2:32 ` Al Viro
2010-01-26 2:43 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-26 2:48 ` Al Viro
2010-01-26 3:10 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-26 3:56 ` Al Viro
2010-01-26 1:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-26 1:12 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-26 2:10 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-25 15:22 ` [PATCH 8/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's left Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <1264432935-10453-9-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-01-25 15:54 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <1264432935-10453-5-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-01-25 21:33 ` [PATCH 4/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net drivers David Miller
2010-01-25 23:14 ` [PATCHSET] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations Al Viro
2010-01-26 0:30 ` Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <1264432935-10453-6-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-01-26 1:06 ` [PATCH 5/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to x86 H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-26 2:17 ` Tejun Heo
2010-02-01 3:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <1264432935-10453-2-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-01-25 21:58 ` [PATCH 1/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems Christoph Lameter
2010-01-31 11:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-02 5:37 ` [PATCHSET] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations Tejun Heo
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