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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-09-13 17:24:21 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-09-23 09:15:01 -0700
commit53ecfba259f54b6967a35d19f4a564e3bc07997f (patch)
treeeaaeebe2a38abe1a401a0d2d40181abaefa80d48 /drivers
parent829f8ed2c963df7c23d1c644db6c4387eb1601fa (diff)
rcu: only one evaluation of arg in rcu_dereference_check() unless sparse
The current version of the __rcu_access_pointer(), __rcu_dereference_check(), and __rcu_dereference_protected() macros evaluate their "p" argument three times, not counting typeof()s. This is bad news if that argument contains a side effect. This commit therefore evaluates this argument only once in normal kernel builds. However, the straightforward approach defeats sparse's RCU-pointer checking, so when __CHECKER__ is defined, the additional pair of evaluations of the "p" argument are performed in order to permit sparse to detect misuse of RCU-protected pointers. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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