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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-05 23:10:54 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-05 23:10:54 -0800
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - inotify tweaks - some ocfs2 updates (many more are awaiting review) - various misc bits - kernel/watchdog.c updates - Some of mm. I have a huge number of MM patches this time and quite a lot of it is quite difficult and much will be held over to next time. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (162 commits) selftests: vm: add tests for lock on fault mm: mlock: add mlock flags to enable VM_LOCKONFAULT usage mm: introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT mm: mlock: add new mlock system call mm: mlock: refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code kasan: always taint kernel on report mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y kasan: use IS_ALIGNED in memory_is_poisoned_8() kasan: Fix a type conversion error lib: test_kasan: add some testcases kasan: update reference to kasan prototype repo kasan: move KASAN_SANITIZE in arch/x86/boot/Makefile kasan: various fixes in documentation kasan: update log messages kasan: accurately determine the type of the bad access kasan: update reported bug types for kernel memory accesses kasan: update reported bug types for not user nor kernel memory accesses mm/kasan: prevent deadlock in kasan reporting mm/kasan: don't use kasan shadow pointer in generic functions mm/kasan: MODULE_VADDR is not available on all archs ...
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diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index c314989d9158..70d8500bddf1 100644
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -205,11 +205,25 @@ struct ustat {
* struct callback_head - callback structure for use with RCU and task_work
* @next: next update requests in a list
* @func: actual update function to call after the grace period.
+ *
+ * The struct is aligned to size of pointer. On most architectures it happens
+ * naturally due ABI requirements, but some architectures (like CRIS) have
+ * weird ABI and we need to ask it explicitly.
+ *
+ * The alignment is required to guarantee that bits 0 and 1 of @next will be
+ * clear under normal conditions -- as long as we use call_rcu(),
+ * call_rcu_bh(), call_rcu_sched(), or call_srcu() to queue callback.
+ *
+ * This guarantee is important for few reasons:
+ * - future call_rcu_lazy() will make use of lower bits in the pointer;
+ * - the structure shares storage spacer in struct page with @compound_head,
+ * which encode PageTail() in bit 0. The guarantee is needed to avoid
+ * false-positive PageTail().
*/
struct callback_head {
struct callback_head *next;
void (*func)(struct callback_head *head);
-};
+} __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(void *))));
#define rcu_head callback_head
typedef void (*rcu_callback_t)(struct rcu_head *head);