[PATCH RFC] Make rcu_dereference_raw() safe for NMI etc.

[Paul E. McKenney]

As promised/threatened on IRC.

							Thanx, Paul

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rcu: Reverse rcu_dereference_check() conditions

The rcu_dereference_check() family of primitives evaluates the RCU
lockdep expression first, and only then evaluates the expression passed
in.  This works fine normally, but can potentially fail in environments
(such as NMI handlers) where lockdep cannot be invoked.  The problem is
that even if the expression passed in is "1", the compiler would need to
prove that the RCU lockdep expression (rcu_read_lock_held(), for example)
is free of side effects in order to be able to elide it.  Given that
rcu_read_lock_held() is sometimes separately compiled, the compiler cannot
always use this optimization.

This commit therefore reverse the order of evaluation, so that the
expression passed in is evaluated first, and the RCU lockdep expression is
evaluated only if the passed-in expression evaluated to false, courtesy
of the C-language short-circuit boolean evaluation rules.  This compells
the compiler to forego executing the RCU lockdep expression in cases
where the passed-in expression evaluates to "1" at compile time, so that
(for example) rcu_dereference_raw() can be guaranteed to execute safely
withing an NMI handler.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index b33aed415872..9d3d0e1d0766 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
  * annotated as __rcu.
  */
 #define rcu_dereference_check(p, c) \
-	__rcu_dereference_check((p), rcu_read_lock_held() || (c), __rcu)
+	__rcu_dereference_check((p), (c) || rcu_read_lock_held(), __rcu)
 
 /**
  * rcu_dereference_bh_check() - rcu_dereference_bh with debug checking
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
  * This is the RCU-bh counterpart to rcu_dereference_check().
  */
 #define rcu_dereference_bh_check(p, c) \
-	__rcu_dereference_check((p), rcu_read_lock_bh_held() || (c), __rcu)
+	__rcu_dereference_check((p), (c) || rcu_read_lock_bh_held(), __rcu)
 
 /**
  * rcu_dereference_sched_check() - rcu_dereference_sched with debug checking
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
  * This is the RCU-sched counterpart to rcu_dereference_check().
  */
 #define rcu_dereference_sched_check(p, c) \
-	__rcu_dereference_check((p), rcu_read_lock_sched_held() || (c), \
+	__rcu_dereference_check((p), (c) || rcu_read_lock_sched_held(), \
 				__rcu)
 
 #define rcu_dereference_raw(p) rcu_dereference_check(p, 1) /*@@@ needed? @@@*/
diff --git a/include/linux/srcu.h b/include/linux/srcu.h
index 9cfd9623fb03..bdeb4567b71e 100644
--- a/include/linux/srcu.h
+++ b/include/linux/srcu.h
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static inline int srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)
  * lockdep_is_held() calls.
  */
 #define srcu_dereference_check(p, sp, c) \
-	__rcu_dereference_check((p), srcu_read_lock_held(sp) || (c), __rcu)
+	__rcu_dereference_check((p), (c) || srcu_read_lock_held(sp), __rcu)
 
 /**
  * srcu_dereference - fetch SRCU-protected pointer for later dereferencing

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