linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 6/7] apei/ghes: Use unrcu

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Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:33:53 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Jia He <justin.he@....com>
Cc:     Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
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        Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com>,
        Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>,
        Jan Luebbe <jlu@...gutronix.de>,
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        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/7] apei/ghes: Use unrcu_pointer for cmpxchg

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 02:35:58AM +0000, Jia He wrote:
> ghes_estatus_caches should be add rcu annotation to avoid sparse warnings.
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:733:25: sparse: sparse: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:733:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache [noderef] __rcu *
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:733:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache *
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:813:25: sparse: sparse: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:813:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache [noderef] __rcu *
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:813:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache *
> 
> unrcu_pointer is to strip the __rcu in cmpxchg.

Is this only to shut up sparse or actually fixing anything?

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    Boris.

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