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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2015-11-23 09:04:05 +0100
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2015-11-23 09:04:05 +0100
commit92907cbbef8625bb3998d1eb385fc88f23c97a3f (patch)
tree15626ff9287e37c3cb81c7286d6db5a7fd77c854 /include/linux/types.h
parent15fbfccfe92c62ae8d1ecc647c44157ed01ac02e (diff)
parent1ec218373b8ebda821aec00bb156a9c94fad9cd4 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.4-rc2' into drm-intel-next-queued
Linux 4.4-rc2 Backmerge to get at commit 1b0e3a049efe471c399674fd954500ce97438d30 Author: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> Date: Thu Nov 5 23:04:11 2015 +0200 drm/i915/skl: disable display side power well support for now so that we can proplery re-eanble skl power wells in -next. Conflicts are just adjacent lines changed, except for intel_fbdev.c where we need to interleave the changs. Nothing nefarious. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
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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);