Recently I added an RCU annotation check to rcu_assign_pointer(). All pointers assigned to RCU protected data are to be annotated with __rcu inorder to be able to use rcu_assign_pointer() similar to checks in other RCU APIs. This resulted in a sparse error: kernel//sched/cpufreq.c:41:9: sparse: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces) Fix this by annotating cpufreq_update_util_data pointer with __rcu. This will also help sparse catch any future RCU misuage bugs. [From an RCU perspective] Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/cpufreq.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c index 835671f0f917..b5dcd1d83c7f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ */ #include "sched.h" -DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data *, cpufreq_update_util_data); +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data __rcu *, cpufreq_update_util_data); /** * cpufreq_add_update_util_hook - Populate the CPU's update_util_data pointer. diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h index efa686eeff26..713715dd00cf 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -2185,7 +2185,7 @@ static inline u64 irq_time_read(int cpu) #endif /* CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING */ #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ -DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data *, cpufreq_update_util_data); +DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data __rcu *, cpufreq_update_util_data); /** * cpufreq_update_util - Take a note about CPU utilization changes. -- 2.21.0.225.g810b269d1ac-goog
