Re: [rdma:for-next 16/50] drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/cm.c:496:48: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces)

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On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 02:18:27PM +0200, Håkon Bugge wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 2 Sep 2020, at 13:52, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 02:01:41PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> >> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git for-next
> >> head:   524d8ffd07f0ca10b24011487339f836ed859b32
> >> commit: 227a0e142e375909959a74b7782403e14331f6f3 [16/50] IB/mlx4: Add support for REJ due to timeout
> >> config: i386-randconfig-s001-20200902 (attached as .config)
> >> compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-15) 9.3.0
> >> reproduce:
> >>        # apt-get install sparse
> >>        # sparse version: v0.6.2-191-g10164920-dirty
> >>        git checkout 227a0e142e375909959a74b7782403e14331f6f3
> >>        # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> >>        make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ARCH=i386 
> >> 
> >> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> >> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Gah!
> > 
> > Håkon, radix trees are not allowed please change this to xarray!
> 
> I believe this is lack of __rcu in the variable definition. I started with
> 
> 	void **slot; 
> 
> but sparse didn't like it, so I changed it to:
> 
> 	__rcu void **slot;
> 
> sparse liked that, but then it didn't like:
> 
> 	struct rej_tmout_entry *item = *slot;
> 
> Shall I change that to:
> 
> 	struct rej_tmout_entry *item = rcu_dereference_protected(*slot, true);
> 
> ?
> 
> 
> Not sure why I need to meld in this rcu stuff when everything is protected by a mutex anyway.
> 
> Please advice,

Change to xarray.

Jason




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