rcu: Fix tracepoints & lockdep false positive
authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:00:29 +0000 (17:00 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:10:40 +0000 (10:10 +0100)
tracepoint.h uses rcu_dereference(), which triggers this warning:

[    0.701161] ===================================================
[    0.702211] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
[    0.702716] ---------------------------------------------------
[    0.703203] include/trace/events/workqueue.h:68 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
[    0.703971] [ 0.703990] other info that might help us debug this:
[    0.703993]
[    0.705590]
[    0.705604] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[    0.706712] 1 lock held by swapper/1:
[    0.707229]  #0:  (cpu_add_remove_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0142f54>] cpu_maps_update_begin+0x14/0x20
[    0.710097]
[    0.710106] stack backtrace:
[    0.712602] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.34-rc1-tip-01613-g72662bb #168
[    0.713231] Call Trace:
[    0.713997]  [<c017174d>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x9d/0xb0
[    0.714746]  [<c015a117>] create_workqueue_thread+0x107/0x110
[    0.715353]  [<c015aee0>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x340
[    0.715845]  [<c015a8e8>] __create_workqueue_key+0x138/0x240
[    0.716427]  [<c0142f92>] ? cpu_maps_update_done+0x12/0x20
[    0.717012]  [<c086b12f>] init_workqueues+0x6f/0x80
[    0.717530]  [<c08576d2>] kernel_init+0x102/0x1f0
[    0.717570]  [<c08575d0>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1f0
[    0.718944]  [<c01030fa>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B9F48AD.4000404@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/linux/tracepoint.h

index f59604e..78b4bd3 100644 (file)
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct tracepoint {
                void **it_func;                                         \
                                                                        \
                rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace();                          \
-               it_func = rcu_dereference((tp)->funcs);                 \
+               it_func = rcu_dereference_sched((tp)->funcs);           \
                if (it_func) {                                          \
                        do {                                            \
                                ((void(*)(proto))(*it_func))(args);     \