rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier

Recent changes to gcc give warning messages on rcu_assign_pointers()'s
checks that allow it to determine when it is OK to omit the memory
barrier.  Stephen Hemminger tried a number of gcc tricks to silence
this warning, but #pragmas and CPP macros do not work together in the
way that would be required to make this work.

However, we now have RCU_INIT_POINTER(), which already omits this
memory barrier, and which therefore may be used when assigning NULL to
an RCU-protected pointer that is accessible to readers.  This commit
therefore makes rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally emit the memory
barrier.

Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index caf22e84a743d31b830d945c1ebee1041effe78f..d7accc5f889274f691f1453b7434532c739b8c86 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -443,9 +443,7 @@ extern int rcu_my_thread_group_empty(void);
        })
 #define __rcu_assign_pointer(p, v, space) \
        ({ \
-               if (!__builtin_constant_p(v) || \
-                   ((v) != NULL)) \
-                       smp_wmb(); \
+               smp_wmb(); \
                (p) = (typeof(*v) __force space *)(v); \
        })