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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:21:28 -0700
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/13] rcu: Add rcu_pointer_handoff()

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 09:13:45AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> This commit adds an rcu_pointer_handoff() that is intended to mark
> situations where a structure's protection transitions from RCU to some
> other mechanism (locking, reference counting, whatever).  These markings
> should allow external tools to more easily spot bugs involving leaking
> pointers out of RCU read-side critical sections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Shouldn't this expect the __rcu address space on the pointer, and cast
away the __rcu with __force?

>  include/linux/rcupdate.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index 6c3ceceb6148..587eb057e2fa 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -813,6 +813,28 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
>  #define rcu_dereference_sched(p) rcu_dereference_sched_check(p, 0)
>  
>  /**
> + * rcu_pointer_handoff() - Hand off a pointer from RCU to other mechanism
> + * @p: The pointer to hand off
> + *
> + * This is simply an identity function, but it documents where a pointer
> + * is handed off from RCU to some other synchronization mechanism, for
> + * example, reference counting or locking.  In C11, it would map to
> + * kill_dependency().  It could be used as follows:
> + *
> + *	rcu_read_lock();
> + *	p = rcu_dereference(gp);
> + *	long_lived = is_long_lived(p);
> + *	if (long_lived) {
> + *		if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(p->refcnt))
> + *			long_lived = false;
> + *		else
> + *			p = rcu_pointer_handoff(p);
> + *	}
> + *	rcu_read_unlock();
> + */
> +#define rcu_pointer_handoff(p) (p)
> +
> +/**
>   * rcu_read_lock() - mark the beginning of an RCU read-side critical section
>   *
>   * When synchronize_rcu() is invoked on one CPU while other CPUs
> -- 
> 2.5.2
> 
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