[PATCH 3.16 043/132] smpboot: Place the __percpu annotation correctly

[Ben Hutchings]

3.16.74-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit d4645d30b50d1691c26ff0f8fa4e718b08f8d3bb upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: f97f8f06a49fe ("smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190424085253.12178-1-bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/smpboot.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/smpboot.h
+++ b/include/linux/smpboot.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ 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);