Commit 41a2901e authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option

The sparse-based checking for non-RCU accesses to RCU-protected pointers
has been around for a very long time, and it is now the only type of
sparse-based checking that is optional.  This commit therefore makes
it unconditional.
Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
parent c4a09ff7
......@@ -559,9 +559,7 @@ The <tt>rcu_access_pointer()</tt> on line&nbsp;6 is similar to
For <tt>remove_gp_synchronous()</tt>, as long as all modifications
to <tt>gp</tt> are carried out while holding <tt>gp_lock</tt>,
the above optimizations are harmless.
However,
with <tt>CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y</tt>,
<tt>sparse</tt> will complain if you
However, <tt>sparse</tt> will complain if you
define <tt>gp</tt> with <tt>__rcu</tt> and then
access it without using
either <tt>rcu_access_pointer()</tt> or <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt>.
......@@ -1978,9 +1976,8 @@ guard against mishaps and misuse:
and <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt>, perhaps (incorrectly)
substituting a simple assignment.
To catch this sort of error, a given RCU-protected pointer may be
tagged with <tt>__rcu</tt>, after which running sparse
with <tt>CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y</tt> will complain
about simple-assignment accesses to that pointer.
tagged with <tt>__rcu</tt>, after which sparse
will complain about simple-assignment accesses to that pointer.
Arnd Bergmann made me aware of this requirement, and also
supplied the needed
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/376011/">patch series</a>.
......
......@@ -413,11 +413,11 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
read-side critical sections. It is the responsibility of the
RCU update-side primitives to deal with this.
17. Use CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD, and the
__rcu sparse checks (enabled by CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER) to
validate your RCU code. These can help find problems as follows:
17. Use CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD, and the
__rcu sparse checks to validate your RCU code. These can help
find problems as follows:
CONFIG_PROVE_RCU: check that accesses to RCU-protected data
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING: check that accesses to RCU-protected data
structures are carried out under the proper RCU
read-side critical section, while holding the right
combination of locks, or whatever other conditions
......
......@@ -103,9 +103,3 @@ have already built it.
The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The
build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically.
Checking RCU annotations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RCU annotations are not checked by default. To enable RCU annotation
checks, include -DCONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER in your CF flags.
......@@ -17,11 +17,7 @@
# define __release(x) __context__(x,-1)
# define __cond_lock(x,c) ((c) ? ({ __acquire(x); 1; }) : 0)
# define __percpu __attribute__((noderef, address_space(3)))
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
# define __rcu __attribute__((noderef, address_space(4)))
#else /* CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER */
# define __rcu
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER */
# define __private __attribute__((noderef))
extern void __chk_user_ptr(const volatile void __user *);
extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
......
......@@ -1306,21 +1306,6 @@ menu "RCU Debugging"
config PROVE_RCU
def_bool PROVE_LOCKING
config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
default n
help
This feature enables the __rcu sparse annotation for
RCU-protected pointers. This annotation will cause sparse
to flag any non-RCU used of annotated pointers. This can be
helpful when debugging RCU usage. Please note that this feature
is not intended to enforce code cleanliness; it is instead merely
a debugging aid.
Say Y to make sparse flag questionable use of RCU-protected pointers
Say N if you are unsure.
config TORTURE_TEST
tristate
default n
......
......@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ lib-y := ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o cmdline.o \
earlycpio.o seq_buf.o siphash.o \
nmi_backtrace.o nodemask.o win_minmax.o
CFLAGS_radix-tree.o += -DCONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
CFLAGS_idr.o += -DCONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
lib-$(CONFIG_MMU) += ioremap.o
lib-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpumask.o
lib-$(CONFIG_DMA_NOOP_OPS) += dma-noop.o
......
......@@ -74,10 +74,6 @@ CONFIG_TINY_RCU
These are controlled by CONFIG_PREEMPT and/or CONFIG_SMP.
CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
Makes sense only for sparse runs, not for kernel builds.
CONFIG_SRCU
CONFIG_TASKS_RCU
......
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