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Commit b10abd0a authored by Joel Fernandes (Google)'s avatar Joel Fernandes (Google) Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/cpufreq: Annotate cpufreq_update_util_data pointer with __rcu



Recently I added an RCU annotation check to rcu_assign_pointer(). All
pointers assigned to RCU protected data are to be annotated with __rcu
inorder to be able to use rcu_assign_pointer() similar to checks in
other RCU APIs.

This resulted in a sparse error:

  kernel//sched/cpufreq.c:41:9: sparse: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)

Fix this by annotating cpufreq_update_util_data pointer with __rcu. This
will also help sparse catch any future RCU misuage bugs.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ From an RCU perspective. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: keescook@chromium.org
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190321003426.160260-2-joel@joelfernandes.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 0e9f0245
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