[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm: sparse: Annotate field with __rcu for checking

Paul E. McKenney paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sun Sep 28 07:34:10 UTC 2014


On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 02:50:43PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> Annotate the map field with __rcu since this is a rcu pointer which is checked
> by sparse.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani at gmail.com>

Queued them both, thank you!

Josh, given this change, are you OK with my applying your Reviewed-by
to the RCU_INIT_POINTER() patch?

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  drivers/md/dm.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
> index 32b958d..746411b 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
> @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ struct mapped_device {
>  	 * Use dm_get_live_table{_fast} or take suspend_lock for
>  	 * dereference.
>  	 */
> -	struct dm_table *map;
> +	struct dm_table __rcu *map;
> 
>  	unsigned long flags;
> 
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 




More information about the dm-devel mailing list