The following commit added an rcu_assign_pointer() assignment to
futex_mm_init() in <linux/futex.h>:
bd54df5ea7 ("futex: Allow to resize the private local hash")
Which breaks the build on older compilers (gcc-9, x86-64 defconfig):
CC io_uring/futex.o
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/generated/asm/rwonce.h:1,
from ./include/linux/compiler.h:390,
from ./include/linux/array_size.h:5,
from ./include/linux/kernel.h:16,
from io_uring/futex.c:2:
./include/linux/futex.h: In function 'futex_mm_init':
./include/linux/rcupdate.h:555:36: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct futex_private_hash'
The problem is that this variant of rcu_assign_pointer() wants to
know the full type of 'struct futex_private_hash', which type
is local to futex.c:
kernel/futex/core.c:struct futex_private_hash {
There are a couple of mechanical solutions for this bug:
- we can uninline futex_mm_init() and move it into futex/core.c
- or we can share the structure definition with kernel/fork.c.
But both of these solutions have disadvantages: the first one adds
runtime overhead, while the second one dis-encapsulates private
futex types.
A third solution, implemented by this patch, is to just initialize
mm->futex_phash with NULL like the patch below, it's not like this
new MM's ->futex_phash can be observed externally until the task
is inserted into the task list, which guarantees full store ordering.
The relaxation of this initialization might also give a tiny speedup
on certain platforms.
Fixes: bd54df5ea7 ("futex: Allow to resize the private local hash")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aB8SI00EHBri23lB@gmail.com
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