[ Upstream commit d4645d30b50d1691c26ff0f8fa4e718b08f8d3bb ]
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 lkp@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@linux.ibm.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Fixes: f97f8f06a49fe ("smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190424085253.12178-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- include/linux/smpboot.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/smpboot.h b/include/linux/smpboot.h index c174844cf663e..585e777a7f6ef 100644 --- 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);