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SubjectRe: [PATCH] rcu: fix sparse warning for rcu_expedited from kernel/ksysfs.c
[Re: [PATCH] rcu: fix sparse warning for rcu_expedited from kernel/ksysfs.c] On 17/02/2014 (Mon 12:36) Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 04:32:07PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:10:12PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > > To fix:
> > >
> > > kernel/ksysfs.c:143:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_expedited' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > >
> > > Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> >
> > Queued, thank you!
>
> Upon further review, I moved the rcu_expedited declaration to
> include/linux/rcupdate.h in order to avoid including RCU-specific
> kernel/rcu/rcu.h into non-RCU files. This resulted in the patch below.
> Please let me know if you have any objections to this change.

I should learn to read my mailbox from oldest to newest after a holiday!
Looks good to me. [I compiled it by eye, without speculative writes ;) ]

I think we should still use the other rcu.h / trace header fix I'd
sent in response to Fengguang's report even with this change though.

Thanks,
Paul.
--
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> rcu: Fix sparse warning for rcu_expedited from kernel/ksysfs.c
>
> This commit fixes the follwoing warning:
>
> kernel/ksysfs.c:143:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_expedited' was not declared. Should it be static?
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> [ paulmck: Moved the declaration to include/linux/rcupdate.h to avoid
> including the RCU-internal rcu.h file outside of RCU. ]
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index 55b605b49315..e4be6263807e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
> #include <linux/compiler.h>
> #include <asm/barrier.h>
>
> +extern int rcu_expedited; /* for sysctl */
> #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
> extern int rcutorture_runnable; /* for sysctl */
> #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST */
> diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
> index d945a949760f..e660964086e2 100644
> --- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
> +++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
> #include <linux/sched.h>
> #include <linux/capability.h>
>
> +#include <linux/rcupdate.h> /* rcu_expedited */
> +
> #define KERNEL_ATTR_RO(_name) \
> static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr = __ATTR_RO(_name)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
> index 1bd787fddcb2..af2e60a8425d 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
> @@ -116,8 +116,6 @@ static inline bool __rcu_reclaim(const char *rn, struct rcu_head *head)
> }
> }
>
> -extern int rcu_expedited;
> -
> #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_STALL_COMMON
>
> extern int rcu_cpu_stall_suppress;
>


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