Re: [PATCH v2] callchain: Annotate RCU pointer with __rcu

[Amol Grover]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 07:48:19PM +0530, Amol Grover wrote:
> Fixes following instances of sparse error
> error: incompatible types in comparison expression
> (different address spaces)
> kernel/events/callchain.c:66:9: error: incompatible types in comparison
> kernel/events/callchain.c:96:9: error: incompatible types in comparison
> kernel/events/callchain.c:161:19: error: incompatible types in comparison
> 
> This introduces the following warning
> kernel/events/callchain.c:65:17: warning: incorrect type in assignment
> which is fixed as below
> 
> callchain_cpus_entries is annotated as an RCU pointer.
> Hence rcu_dereference_protected or similar RCU API is
> required to dereference the pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@xxxxxxxxx>

Hey Peter,

Can you have a look at this patch as well? I have already done the
requested changes.

Thanks
Amol

> ---
> v2:
> - Squash both the commits into a single one.
> 
>  kernel/events/callchain.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c
> index c2b41a263166..a672d02a1b3a 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/callchain.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static inline size_t perf_callchain_entry__sizeof(void)
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, callchain_recursion[PERF_NR_CONTEXTS]);
>  static atomic_t nr_callchain_events;
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(callchain_mutex);
> -static struct callchain_cpus_entries *callchain_cpus_entries;
> +static struct callchain_cpus_entries __rcu *callchain_cpus_entries;
>  
>  
>  __weak void perf_callchain_kernel(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry,
> @@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ static void release_callchain_buffers(void)
>  {
>  	struct callchain_cpus_entries *entries;
>  
> -	entries = callchain_cpus_entries;
> +	entries = rcu_dereference_protected(callchain_cpus_entries,
> +					    lockdep_is_held(&callchain_mutex));
>  	RCU_INIT_POINTER(callchain_cpus_entries, NULL);
>  	call_rcu(&entries->rcu_head, release_callchain_buffers_rcu);
>  }
> -- 
> 2.24.1
>