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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rcupdate.h20
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 5a05ef63eb4..3385ea26f68 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1626,7 +1626,7 @@ out:
static unsigned int mce_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
{
poll_wait(file, &mce_wait, wait);
- if (rcu_dereference_check_mce(mcelog.next))
+ if (rcu_access_index(mcelog.next))
return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;
if (!mce_apei_read_done && apei_check_mce())
return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index af561485628..ff422d2b7f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -339,6 +339,12 @@ extern int rcu_my_thread_group_empty(void);
((typeof(*p) __force __kernel *)(p)); \
})
+#define __rcu_access_index(p, space) \
+ ({ \
+ typeof(p) _________p1 = ACCESS_ONCE(p); \
+ rcu_dereference_sparse(p, space); \
+ (_________p1); \
+ })
#define __rcu_dereference_index_check(p, c) \
({ \
typeof(p) _________p1 = ACCESS_ONCE(p); \
@@ -429,6 +435,20 @@ extern int rcu_my_thread_group_empty(void);
#define rcu_dereference_raw(p) rcu_dereference_check(p, 1) /*@@@ needed? @@@*/
/**
+ * rcu_access_index() - fetch RCU index with no dereferencing
+ * @p: The index to read
+ *
+ * Return the value of the specified RCU-protected index, but omit the
+ * smp_read_barrier_depends() and keep the ACCESS_ONCE(). This is useful
+ * when the value of this index is accessed, but the index is not
+ * dereferenced, for example, when testing an RCU-protected index against
+ * -1. Although rcu_access_index() may also be used in cases where
+ * update-side locks prevent the value of the index from changing, you
+ * should instead use rcu_dereference_index_protected() for this use case.
+ */
+#define rcu_access_index(p) __rcu_access_index((p), __rcu)
+
+/**
* rcu_dereference_index_check() - rcu_dereference for indices with debug checking
* @p: The pointer to read, prior to dereferencing
* @c: The conditions under which the dereference will take place