3.16.74-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> commit d4645d30b50d1691c26ff0f8fa4e718b08f8d3bb upstream. The test robot reported a wrong assignment of a per-CPU variable which it detected by using sparse and sent a report. The assignment itself is correct. The annotation for sparse was wrong and hence the report. The first pointer is a "normal" pointer and points to the per-CPU memory area. That means that the __percpu annotation has to be moved. Move the __percpu annotation to pointer which points to the per-CPU area. This change affects only the sparse tool (and is ignored by the compiler). Reported-by: kbuild test robot <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Fixes: f97f8f06a49fe ("smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- include/linux/smpboot.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/smpboot.h +++ b/include/linux/smpboot.h @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct smpboot_thread_data; * @thread_comm: The base name of the thread */ struct smp_hotplug_thread { - struct task_struct __percpu **store; + struct task_struct * __percpu *store; struct list_head list; int (*thread_should_run)(unsigned int cpu); void (*thread_fn)(unsigned int cpu);
