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author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2015-11-23 09:04:05 +0100 |
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committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2015-11-23 09:04:05 +0100 |
commit | 92907cbbef8625bb3998d1eb385fc88f23c97a3f (patch) | |
tree | 15626ff9287e37c3cb81c7286d6db5a7fd77c854 /include/linux/types.h | |
parent | 15fbfccfe92c62ae8d1ecc647c44157ed01ac02e (diff) | |
parent | 1ec218373b8ebda821aec00bb156a9c94fad9cd4 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/types.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/types.h | 16 |
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); |