linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Paul E. McKenney b826565aaf rcu: Reverse rcu_dereference_check() conditions
The rcu_dereference_check() family of primitives evaluates the RCU
lockdep expression first, and only then evaluates the expression passed
in.  This works fine normally, but can potentially fail in environments
(such as NMI handlers) where lockdep cannot be invoked.  The problem is
that even if the expression passed in is "1", the compiler would need to
prove that the RCU lockdep expression (rcu_read_lock_held(), for example)
is free of side effects in order to be able to elide it.  Given that
rcu_read_lock_held() is sometimes separately compiled, the compiler cannot
always use this optimization.

This commit therefore reverse the order of evaluation, so that the
expression passed in is evaluated first, and the RCU lockdep expression is
evaluated only if the passed-in expression evaluated to false, courtesy
of the C-language short-circuit boolean evaluation rules.  This compells
the compiler to forego executing the RCU lockdep expression in cases
where the passed-in expression evaluates to "1" at compile time, so that
(for example) rcu_dereference_raw() can be guaranteed to execute safely
within an NMI handler.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2015-03-03 11:16:47 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2015-02-19 11:28:36 -08:00
asm-generic OK, this has the big virtio 1.0 implementation, as specified by OASIS. 2015-02-18 09:24:01 -08:00
clocksource
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-02-14 09:47:01 -08:00
drm drm/dp: add drm_dp_link_power_down() helper 2015-02-01 15:06:42 -05:00
dt-bindings The clock framework changes for 3.20 contain the usual driver additions, 2015-02-21 12:30:30 -08:00
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linux rcu: Reverse rcu_dereference_check() conditions 2015-03-03 11:16:47 -08:00
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media [media] tea575x: split and export functions 2015-01-27 10:13:50 -02:00
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net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-02-17 17:41:19 -08:00
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rdma Revert "IB/core: Add support for extended query device caps" 2015-02-06 00:54:33 -08:00
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sound ALSA: pcm: allow for trigger_tstamp snapshot in .trigger 2015-02-09 16:01:53 +01:00
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