[PATCH] smpboot: Place the __percpu annotation correctly

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Wed Apr 24 2019 - 04:53:11 EST


The test robot reported a wrong assignment of a per-CPU variable which
it detected by using sparse and sent a report. The assignment itself is
correct. The annotation for sparse was wrong and hence the report.
The first pointer is a "normal" pointer and points to the per-CPU memory
area. That means that the __percpu annotation has to be moved.

Move the __percpu annotation to pointer which points to the per-CPU
area. This change affects only the sparse tool (and is ignored by the
compiler).

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/201904231828.a3jAyl28%25lkp@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: f97f8f06a49fe ("smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/smpboot.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/smpboot.h b/include/linux/smpboot.h
index d0884b5250010..9d1bc65d226cc 100644
--- a/include/linux/smpboot.h
+++ b/include/linux/smpboot.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ struct smpboot_thread_data;
* @thread_comm: The base name of the thread
*/
struct smp_hotplug_thread {
- struct task_struct __percpu **store;
+ struct task_struct * __percpu *store;
struct list_head list;
int (*thread_should_run)(unsigned int cpu);
void (*thread_fn)(unsigned int cpu);
--
2.20.1