From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 0/13] Sparse-related updates for 3.13
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:18:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131009221805.GA11709@jtriplet-mobl1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131009212920.GA15413@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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.
- Josh Triplett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-09 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-09 21:29 [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 ` [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 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 04/13] wireless: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 05/13] decnet: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:28 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 22:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:57 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 23:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:58 ` Dhaval Giani
2013-10-09 23:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 06/13] ipv4/ip_socketglue: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 07/13] ipv6/ip6_tunnel: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-09 21:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-09 22:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-09 22:56 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 23:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-09 23:40 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-10 0:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-10 0:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-10 2:04 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-10 19:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-12 2:25 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-12 7:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-12 16:43 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-12 17:37 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-12 19:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-10-13 11:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-13 20:11 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-11 0:20 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-11 13:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 08/13] ipv6/ip6_gre: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 09/13] ipv6/sit: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 10/13] mac80211: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 11/13] bridge/br_mdb: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 12/13] bonding/bond_main: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 13/13] bonding/bond_alb.c: " Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:18 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2013-10-09 22:46 ` [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 0/13] Sparse-related updates for 3.13 Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-09 22:23 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-09 22:30 ` Josh Triplett
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