[PATCH cgroup/for-3.11 3/3] cgroup: always use RCU accessors for protected accesses
Li Zefan
lizefan at huawei.com
Tue Jun 25 02:04:51 UTC 2013
On 2013/6/22 6:52, Tejun Heo wrote:
> kernel/cgroup.c still has places where a RCU pointer is set and
> accessed directly without going through RCU_INIT_POINTER() or
> rcu_dereference_protected(). They're all properly protected accesses
> so nothing is broken but it leads to spurious sparse RCU address space
> warnings.
>
> Substitute direct accesses with RCU_INIT_POINTER() and
> rcu_dereference_protected(). Note that %true is specified as the
> extra condition for all derference updates. This isn't ideal as all
> it does is suppressing warning without actually policing
> synchronization rules; however, most are scheduled to be removed
> pretty soon along with css_id itself, so no reason to be more
> elaborate.
>
> Combined with the previous changes, this removes all RCU related
> sparse warnings from cgroup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu at intel.com>
> ---
> kernel/cgroup.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by; Li Zefan <lizefan at huawei.com>
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