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Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:19:40 +0800
From:	Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
To:	<paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rculist: Fix another sparse warning

On 03/25/2015 09:49 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:43:38PM +0800, Ying Xue wrote:
>> This fixes the following sparse warnings:
>>
>> make C=1 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ net/tipc/name_table.o
>> net/tipc/name_table.c:977:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
>> net/tipc/name_table.c:977:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
>>
>> To silence these spare complaints, an RCU annotation should be added to
>> "next" pointer of hlist_node structure through hlist_next_rcu() macro
>> when iterating over a hlist with hlist_for_each_entry_from_rcu().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
> 
> If hlist_for_each_entry_from_rcu() is to use rcu_dereference_bh(), then
> it needs to be named hlist_for_each_entry_from_rcu_bh().  If we want
> to retain the generic nature, rcu_dereference_raw() would work.
> 
> (Otherwise, we would get splats if this was used under rcu_read_lock()
> rather than rcu_read_lock_bh().)
> 

Yes, you are absolutely right. Thanks to point out my mistake.
I will fix it in next version.

Regards,
Ying

> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
>> ---
>>  include/linux/rculist.h |    4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h
>> index a18b16f..18a3f15 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/rculist.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
>> @@ -549,8 +549,8 @@ static inline void hlist_add_behind_rcu(struct hlist_node *n,
>>   */
>>  #define hlist_for_each_entry_from_rcu(pos, member)			\
>>  	for (; pos;							\
>> -	     pos = hlist_entry_safe(rcu_dereference((pos)->member.next),\
>> -			typeof(*(pos)), member))
>> +	     pos = hlist_entry_safe(rcu_dereference_bh(hlist_next_rcu(	\
>> +			&(pos)->member)), typeof(*(pos)), member))
>>
>>  #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
>>  #endif
>> -- 
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
> 
> 
> 

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