Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] seqlock: change __seqprop() to return the function pointer

[Ingo Molnar]

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This simplifies the macro and makes it easy to add the new seqprop's
> with 2 or more args.
> 
> Plus this way we do not lose the type info, the (void*) type cast is
> no longer needed.
> 
> And the latter reveals the problem: a lot of seqcount_t helpers pass
> the "const seqcount_t *s" argument to __seqprop_ptr(seqcount_t *s)
> but (before this patch) "(void *)(s)" masked the problem.
> 
> So this patch changes __seqprop_ptr() and __seqprop_##lockname##_ptr()
> to accept the "const LOCKNAME *s" argument. This is not nice either,
> they need to drop the constness on return because these helpers are used
> by both the readers and writers, but at least it is clear what's going on.

> +__seqprop_##lockname##_ptr(const seqcount_##lockname##_t *s)		\
>  {									\
> +	return (void *)&s->seqcount; /* drop const */			\
>  }									\

> +static inline seqcount_t *__seqprop_ptr(const seqcount_t *s)
>  {
> +	return (void *)s; /* drop const */
>  }

Okay, so dropping 'const' makes sense in terms of staying bug-compatible
with the  previous API and not build-breaking the world - but could we
perhaps follow this up with fixups of the type misuse and then a removal
of the forced type casts from these APIs?

Meanwhile I'm applying your patches to tip:locking/core, unless someone objects.

Thanks,

	Ingo