Quoting Paul [1]: "Given that a quick (and perhaps error-prone) search of the uses of rcu_assign_pointer() in v5.1 didn't find a single use of the return value, let's please instead change the documentation and implementation to eliminate the return value."
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523135013.gl28...@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.pa...@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan...@gmail.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <j...@joelfernandes.org> Cc: r...@vger.kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org> --- Matthew, Sasha: The patch is based on -rcu/dev; I took the liberty of applying the same change to your #defines in: tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/rcupdate.h tools/include/linux/rcu.h but I admit that I'm not familiar with their uses: please shout if you have any objections with it. --- Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 8 ++++---- include/linux/rcupdate.h | 5 ++--- tools/include/linux/rcu.h | 11 +++++++++-- tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/rcupdate.h | 5 ++++- 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index 981651a8b65d2..f99a87b9a88fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ synchronize_rcu() rcu_assign_pointer() - typeof(p) rcu_assign_pointer(p, typeof(p) v); + rcu_assign_pointer(p, typeof(p) v); Yes, rcu_assign_pointer() -is- implemented as a macro, though it would be cool to be able to declare a function in this manner. @@ -220,9 +220,9 @@ rcu_assign_pointer() The updater uses this function to assign a new value to an RCU-protected pointer, in order to safely communicate the change - in value from the updater to the reader. This function returns - the new value, and also executes any memory-barrier instructions - required for a given CPU architecture. + in value from the updater to the reader. This macro does not + evaluate to an rvalue, but it does execute any memory-barrier + instructions required for a given CPU architecture. Perhaps just as important, it serves to document (1) which pointers are protected by RCU and (2) the point at which a diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index 915460ec08722..a5f61a08e65fc 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void) { } * other macros that it invokes. */ #define rcu_assign_pointer(p, v) \ -({ \ +do { \ uintptr_t _r_a_p__v = (uintptr_t)(v); \ rcu_check_sparse(p, __rcu); \ \ @@ -375,8 +375,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void) { } WRITE_ONCE((p), (typeof(p))(_r_a_p__v)); \ else \ smp_store_release(&p, RCU_INITIALIZER((typeof(p))_r_a_p__v)); \ - _r_a_p__v; \ -}) +} while (0) /** * rcu_swap_protected() - swap an RCU and a regular pointer diff --git a/tools/include/linux/rcu.h b/tools/include/linux/rcu.h index 7d02527e5bcea..01a435ee48cd6 100644 --- a/tools/include/linux/rcu.h +++ b/tools/include/linux/rcu.h @@ -19,7 +19,14 @@ static inline bool rcu_is_watching(void) return false; } -#define rcu_assign_pointer(p, v) ((p) = (v)) -#define RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, v) p=(v) +#define rcu_assign_pointer(p, v) \ +do { \ + (p) = (v); \ +} while (0) + +#define RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, v) \ +do { \ + (p) = (v); \ +} while (0) #endif diff --git a/tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/rcupdate.h b/tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/rcupdate.h index fd280b070fdb1..48212f3a758e6 100644 --- a/tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ #define rcu_dereference_raw(p) rcu_dereference(p) #define rcu_dereference_protected(p, cond) rcu_dereference(p) #define rcu_dereference_check(p, cond) rcu_dereference(p) -#define RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, v) (p) = (v) +#define RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, v) \ +do { \ + (p) = (v); \ +} while (0) #endif -- 2.7.4
