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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:46:57PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Simon Horman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:50:47PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > > kbuild test robot reports for sparse warnings in
> > > commits c2a4ffb70eef39 ("ipvs: convert lblc scheduler to rcu")
> > > and c5549571f975ab ("ipvs: convert lblcr scheduler to rcu").
> > >
> > > Fix it by removing extra __rcu annotation.
> >
> > Hi Julian,
> >
> > perhaps only for my benefit, but could you explain
> > why the annotations are unnecessary?
>
> IMHO, because __rcu should be used only for
> pointers, not for struct hlist_head. The *list*_rcu
> methods enforce __rcu internally for the pointers.
Thanks, I have queued-up the change in ipvs-next.
>
> > > Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblc.c | 2 +-
> > > net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblcr.c | 2 +-
> > > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblc.c
> > > b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblc.c
> > > index b2cc252..5ea26bd 100644
> > > --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblc.c
> > > +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblc.c
> > > @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ struct ip_vs_lblc_entry {
> > > */
> > > struct ip_vs_lblc_table {
> > > struct rcu_head rcu_head;
> > > - struct hlist_head __rcu bucket[IP_VS_LBLC_TAB_SIZE]; /* hash bucket */
> > > + struct hlist_head bucket[IP_VS_LBLC_TAB_SIZE]; /* hash bucket */
> > > struct timer_list periodic_timer; /* collect stale entries */
> > > atomic_t entries; /* number of entries */
> > > int max_size; /* maximum size of entries */
> > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblcr.c
> > > b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblcr.c
> > > index feb9656..50123c2 100644
> > > --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblcr.c
> > > +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblcr.c
> > > @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ struct ip_vs_lblcr_entry {
> > > */
> > > struct ip_vs_lblcr_table {
> > > struct rcu_head rcu_head;
> > > - struct hlist_head __rcu bucket[IP_VS_LBLCR_TAB_SIZE]; /* hash bucket */
> > > + struct hlist_head bucket[IP_VS_LBLCR_TAB_SIZE]; /* hash bucket */
> > > atomic_t entries; /* number of entries */
> > > int max_size; /* maximum size of entries */
> > > struct timer_list periodic_timer; /* collect stale entries */
> > > --
> > > 1.7.3.4
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
>
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