linux-kernel - [tip:locking/core] locking, compiler.h: Cast away attributes in the WRITE

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Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2015 05:34:08 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Christian Borntraeger <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, andreyknvl@...gle.com, hpa@...or.com,
	borntraeger@...ibm.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...nel.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [tip:locking/core] locking, compiler.h:
  Cast away attributes in the WRITE_ONCE() magic

Commit-ID:  ba33034fffc1189d95301bd865f1c799256e72a2
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ba33034fffc1189d95301bd865f1c799256e72a2
Author:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:55:48 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:58:58 +0200

locking, compiler.h: Cast away attributes in the WRITE_ONCE() magic

The kernel build bot showed a new warning triggered by commit:

  76695af20c01 ("locking, arch: use WRITE_ONCE()/READ_ONCE() in smp_store_release()/smp_load_acquire()")

because Sparse does not like WRITE_ONCE() accessing elements
from the (sparse) RCU address space:

  fs/afs/inode.c:448:9: sparse: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces)
  fs/afs/inode.c:448:9:    expected struct afs_permits *__val
  fs/afs/inode.c:448:9:    got void [noderef] <asn:4>*<noident>

Solution is to force cast away the sparse attributes for the initializer
of the union in WRITE_ONCE().

(And as this now gets too long, also split the macro into multiple lines.)

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438674948-38310-2-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/compiler.h | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index e08a6ae..c836eb2 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -252,7 +252,12 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
 	({ union { typeof(x) __val; char __c[1]; } __u; __read_once_size(&(x), __u.__c, sizeof(x)); __u.__val; })
 
 #define WRITE_ONCE(x, val) \
-	({ union { typeof(x) __val; char __c[1]; } __u = { .__val = (val) }; __write_once_size(&(x), __u.__c, sizeof(x)); __u.__val; })
+({							\
+	union { typeof(x) __val; char __c[1]; } __u =	\
+		{ .__val = (__force typeof(x)) (val) }; \
+	__write_once_size(&(x), __u.__c, sizeof(x));	\
+	__u.__val;					\
+})
 
 /**
  * READ_ONCE_CTRL - Read a value heading a control dependency
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