Mostly for historical reasons, q->blk_trace is assigned through xchg() and cmpxchg() atomic operations. Although this is correct, sparse complains about this because it violates rcu annotations. Furthermore there's no real need for atomic operations anymore since all changes to q->blk_trace happen under q->blk_trace_mutex. So let's just replace xchg() with rcu_replace_pointer() and cmpxchg() with explicit check and rcu_assign_pointer(). This makes the code more efficient and sparse happy. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c index ca39dc3230cb..e4a9ba85b76f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c @@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ static int __blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q) { struct blk_trace *bt; - bt = xchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL); + bt = rcu_replace_pointer(q->blk_trace, NULL, + lockdep_is_held(&q->blk_trace_mutex)); if (!bt) return -EINVAL; @@ -485,6 +486,10 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev, if (!blk_debugfs_root) return -ENOENT; + if (rcu_dereference_protected(q->blk_trace, + lockdep_is_held(&q->blk_trace_mutex))) + return -EBUSY; + strncpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE); buts->name[BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE - 1] = '\0'; @@ -543,10 +548,7 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev, bt->pid = buts->pid; bt->trace_state = Blktrace_setup; - ret = -EBUSY; - if (cmpxchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL, bt)) - goto err; - + rcu_assign_pointer(q->blk_trace, bt); get_probe_ref(); ret = 0; @@ -1637,7 +1639,8 @@ static int blk_trace_remove_queue(struct request_queue *q) { struct blk_trace *bt; - bt = xchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL); + bt = rcu_replace_pointer(q->blk_trace, NULL, + lockdep_is_held(&q->blk_trace_mutex)); if (bt == NULL) return -EINVAL; @@ -1669,10 +1672,7 @@ static int blk_trace_setup_queue(struct request_queue *q, blk_trace_setup_lba(bt, bdev); - ret = -EBUSY; - if (cmpxchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL, bt)) - goto free_bt; - + rcu_assign_pointer(q->blk_trace, bt); get_probe_ref(); return 0; -- 2.16.4