[PATCH] [RESEND] x86/kexec: crash_vmclear_local_vmcss needs __rcu

From: Zhang Yanfei
Date: Tue Dec 11 2012 - 04:13:31 EST


This removes the sparse warning:
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c:49:32: sparse: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h | 3 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
index 28feeba..6080d26 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ struct kimage_arch {
};
#endif

-extern void (*crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss)(void);
+typedef void crash_vmclear_fn(void);
+extern crash_vmclear_fn __rcu *crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss;

#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index 2f6b8e8..74467fe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ int in_crash_kexec;
*
* protected by rcu.
*/
-void (*crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss)(void) = NULL;
+crash_vmclear_fn __rcu *crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss = NULL;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss);

static inline void cpu_crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss(void)
{
- void (*do_vmclear_operation)(void) = NULL;
+ crash_vmclear_fn *do_vmclear_operation = NULL;

rcu_read_lock();
do_vmclear_operation = rcu_dereference(crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss);
--
1.7.1

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