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Commit b9964ce7 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer



The xchg() and cmpxchg() functions are sometimes used to carry out RCU
updates.  Unfortunately, this can result in sparse warnings for both
the old-value and new-value arguments, as well as for the return value.
The arguments can be dealt with using RCU_INITIALIZER():

        old_p = xchg(&p, RCU_INITIALIZER(new_p));

But a sparse warning still remains due to assigning the __rcu pointer
returned from xchg to the (most likely) non-__rcu pointer old_p.

This commit therefore provides an unrcu_pointer() macro that strips
the __rcu.  This macro can be used as follows:

        old_p = unrcu_pointer(xchg(&p, RCU_INITIALIZER(new_p)));

Reported-by: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-2-toke@redhat.com
parent 0bc919d3
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