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authorJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>2019-03-20 20:34:23 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-04-03 12:34:31 +0200
commitb10abd0a8859493a93c6b8020f2be2587557749d (patch)
tree623e20a711a9e3fa5924d16ef33f2ac12bd21150 /kernel/sched
parentsched/fair: Do not re-read ->h_load_next during hierarchical load calculation (diff)
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sched/cpufreq: Annotate cpufreq_update_util_data pointer with __rcu
Recently I added an RCU annotation check to rcu_assign_pointer(). All pointers assigned to RCU protected data are to be annotated with __rcu inorder to be able to use rcu_assign_pointer() similar to checks in other RCU APIs. This resulted in a sparse error: kernel//sched/cpufreq.c:41:9: sparse: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces) Fix this by annotating cpufreq_update_util_data pointer with __rcu. This will also help sparse catch any future RCU misuage bugs. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> [ From an RCU perspective. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: keescook@chromium.org Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: kernel-team@android.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190321003426.160260-2-joel@joelfernandes.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/cpufreq.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/sched.h2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c
index 835671f0f917..b5dcd1d83c7f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
*/
#include "sched.h"
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data *, cpufreq_update_util_data);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data __rcu *, cpufreq_update_util_data);
/**
* cpufreq_add_update_util_hook - Populate the CPU's update_util_data pointer.
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index efa686eeff26..713715dd00cf 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -2185,7 +2185,7 @@ static inline u64 irq_time_read(int cpu)
#endif /* CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING */
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
-DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data *, cpufreq_update_util_data);
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data __rcu *, cpufreq_update_util_data);
/**
* cpufreq_update_util - Take a note about CPU utilization changes.