linux-kernel - Re: How do I increment a per-CPU variable without warning?

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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:29:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org, tj@...nel.org,
	grygorii.strashko@...com, peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: How do I increment a per-CPU variable without warning?

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 09:06:21AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:08:03AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello, Christoph,
> > > >
> > > > I have a patch that currently uses __this_cpu_inc_return() to increment a
> > > > per-CPU variable, but without preemption disabled.  Of course, given that
> > > > preemption is enabled, it might well end up picking up one CPU's counter,
> > > > adding one to it, then storing the result into some other CPU's counter.
> > > > But this is OK, the test can be probabilistic.  And when I run this
> > > > against v3.14 and earlier, it works fine.
> > >
> > > We introduced raw_cpu_inc_return to squish these warnings.
> >
> > Cool, this is a good short-term fix.
>
> Or at least it is given the following patch.  Was this the intent?

Correct. Thanks for the fix.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>


> 							Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> percpu: Fix raw_cpu_inc_return()
>
> The definition for raw_cpu_add_return() uses the operation prefix
> "raw_add_return_", but the definitions in the various percpu.h files
> expect "raw_cpu_add_return_".  This commit therefore appropriately
> adjusts the definition of raw_cpu_add_return().
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
> index e7a0b95ed527..495c6543a8f2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/percpu.h
> +++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
> @@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ do {									\
>  #  define raw_cpu_add_return_8(pcp, val)	raw_cpu_generic_add_return(pcp, val)
>  # endif
>  # define raw_cpu_add_return(pcp, val)	\
> -	__pcpu_size_call_return2(raw_add_return_, pcp, val)
> +	__pcpu_size_call_return2(raw_cpu_add_return_, pcp, val)
>  #endif
>
>  #define raw_cpu_sub_return(pcp, val)	raw_cpu_add_return(pcp, -(typeof(pcp))(val))
>
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