Re: [PATCH v8 6/7] apei/ghes: Use unrcu_pointer for cmpxchg

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 02:35:58AM +0000, Jia He wrote:
> ghes_estatus_caches should be add rcu annotation to avoid sparse warnings.
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:733:25: sparse: sparse: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:733:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache [noderef] __rcu *
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:733:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache *
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:813:25: sparse: sparse: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:813:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache [noderef] __rcu *
>    drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:813:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache *
> 
> unrcu_pointer is to strip the __rcu in cmpxchg.

Is this only to shut up sparse or actually fixing anything?

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