rcu: Fix tracepoints & lockdep false positive

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From: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010 - 3:59 pm

Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/7f5b774275df8c76a959eae7488128b637fcbfc8
Commit:     7f5b774275df8c76a959eae7488128b637fcbfc8
Parent:     e3818b8dce2a934cd1521dbc4827e5238d8f45d8
Author:     Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 16 17:00:29 2010 +0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 16 10:10:40 2010 +0100

    rcu: Fix tracepoints & lockdep false positive
    
    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 |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index f59604e..78b4bd3 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -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);	\
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