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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-21 02:46:31 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-21 21:27:33 +0300
commitdd36929720f40f17685e841ae0d4c581c165ea60 (patch)
tree62743edeac21a222371f9032fa1f0e59531c38ce /include/linux/compiler.h
parent4fbd0a81a0059f22d06780de96e73f9ddbccd8a4 (diff)
downloadlinux-dd36929720f40f17685e841ae0d4c581c165ea60.tar.xz
kernel: make READ_ONCE() valid on const arguments
The use of READ_ONCE() causes lots of warnings witht he pending paravirt spinlock fixes, because those ends up having passing a member to a 'const' structure to READ_ONCE(). There should certainly be nothing wrong with using READ_ONCE() with a const source, but the helper function __read_once_size() would cause warnings because it would drop the 'const' qualifier, but also because the destination would be marked 'const' too due to the use of 'typeof'. Use a union of types in READ_ONCE() to avoid this issue. Also make sure to use parenthesis around the macro arguments to avoid possible operator precedence issues. Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index d1ec10a940ff..1b45e4a0519b 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static __always_inline void data_access_exceeds_word_size(void)
{
}
-static __always_inline void __read_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int size)
+static __always_inline void __read_once_size(const volatile void *p, void *res, int size)
{
switch (size) {
case 1: *(__u8 *)res = *(volatile __u8 *)p; break;
@@ -259,10 +259,10 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
*/
#define READ_ONCE(x) \
- ({ typeof(x) __val; __read_once_size(&x, &__val, sizeof(__val)); __val; })
+ ({ union { typeof(x) __val; char __c[1]; } __u; __read_once_size(&(x), __u.__c, sizeof(x)); __u.__val; })
#define WRITE_ONCE(x, val) \
- ({ typeof(x) __val; __val = val; __write_once_size(&x, &__val, sizeof(__val)); __val; })
+ ({ typeof(x) __val = (val); __write_once_size(&(x), &__val, sizeof(__val)); __val; })
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */