> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 11:39 PM
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> Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 6/7] apei/ghes: Use unrcu_pointer for cmpxchg
>
> From: Jia He
> > Sent: 17 August 2022 15:35
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 7 ++++---
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c index
> > 9272d963b57d..92ae58f4f7bb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> > @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ struct ghes_vendor_record_entry { static struct
> > gen_pool *ghes_estatus_pool; static unsigned long
> > ghes_estatus_pool_size_request;
> >
> > -static struct ghes_estatus_cache
> > *ghes_estatus_caches[GHES_ESTATUS_CACHES_SIZE];
> > +static struct ghes_estatus_cache __rcu
> > +*ghes_estatus_caches[GHES_ESTATUS_CACHES_SIZE];
> > static atomic_t ghes_estatus_cache_alloced;
> >
> > static int ghes_panic_timeout __read_mostly = 30; @@ -834,8 +834,9
> @@
> > static void ghes_estatus_cache_add(
> > }
> > /* new_cache must be put into array after its contents are written */
> > smp_wmb();
> > - if (slot != -1 && cmpxchg(ghes_estatus_caches + slot,
> > - slot_cache, new_cache) == slot_cache) {
> > + if (slot != -1 && unrcu_pointer(cmpxchg(ghes_estatus_caches + slot,
> > + RCU_INITIALIZER(slot_cache),
> > + RCU_INITIALIZER(new_cache)))) {
>
> Did you test this?
> There seems to be an == missing.
Sorry about it,
--
Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)
