linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 32/55] rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier

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Date:	Tue,  6 Sep 2011 11:00:26 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	dhowells@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, darren@...art.com,
	patches@...aro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 32/55] rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Recent changes to gcc give warning messages on rcu_assign_pointers()'s
checks that allow it to determine when it is OK to omit the memory
barrier.  Stephen Hemminger tried a number of gcc tricks to silence
this warning, but #pragmas and CPP macros do not work together in the
way that would be required to make this work.

However, we now have RCU_INIT_POINTER(), which already omits this
memory barrier, and which therefore may be used when assigning NULL to
an RCU-protected pointer that is accessible to readers.  This commit
therefore makes rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally emit the memory
barrier.

Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index ea80396..b2e5fe8 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -443,9 +443,7 @@ extern int rcu_my_thread_group_empty(void);
 	})
 #define __rcu_assign_pointer(p, v, space) \
 	({ \
-		if (!__builtin_constant_p(v) || \
-		    ((v) != NULL)) \
-			smp_wmb(); \
+		smp_wmb(); \
 		(p) = (typeof(*v) __force space *)(v); \
 	})
 
-- 
1.7.3.2

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