rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:30:54 +0000 (14:30 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Thu, 13 May 2021 16:13:23 +0000 (09:13 -0700)
commit76c8eaafe4f061f3790112842a2fbb297e4bea88
tree3f6feabd24c2677e9cafd06406183f7ff11abd41
parent3d3a0d1b508dcc47e82b0e12cde6585bc088b0cc
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: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
include/linux/rcupdate.h