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Re: [PATCH] seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch()

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch()
Date 2016-05-23 11:40 +0200
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On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:50:40PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:48:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:14:49PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > lockless_dereference() is supposed to take pointer not integer.
> > 
> > Urgh :/
> > 
> > Is there any way we can make lockless_dereference() issue a warning if
> > we don't feed it a pointer?
> > 
> > Would something like so work? All pointer types should silently cast to
> > void * while integer (and others) should refuse to.
> 
> This works (and spammy enough in case of seqlock, which is good)
> but not for "unsigned long":
> 
> 	include/linux/percpu-refcount.h:146:36: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
> 	  percpu_ptr = lockless_dereference(ref->percpu_count_ptr);

TJ; would you prefer casting or not using lockless_dereference() here?

> 
> > --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > @@ -544,6 +544,7 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
> >   */
> >  #define lockless_dereference(p) \
> >  ({ \
> > + 	__maybe_unused void * _________p2 = p; \
> >  	typeof(p) _________p1 = READ_ONCE(p); \
> >  	smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Dependency order vs. p above. */ \
> >  	(_________p1); \

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[PATCH] seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch() Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 22:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-05-22 12:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch() Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> - 2016-05-22 21:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-05-23 11:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch() Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 22:00 +0200
          [PATCH] percpu: Revert ("percpu: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends()  with lockless_dereference()") Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-05-25 22:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-05-27 13:20 +0200

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