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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-05 23:10:54 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-05 23:10:54 -0800 |
commit | 2e3078af2c67730c479f1d183af5b367f5d95337 (patch) | |
tree | b7881c6c9c479aadac345df7e18e3c0e10f0811e /include/linux/types.h | |
parent | ea5c58e70c3a148ada0d3061a8f529589bb766ba (diff) | |
parent | b3b0d09c7a2330759ac293f5269bd932439ea0ff (diff) | |
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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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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/types.h')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
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); |