Jan Kara
c3dbe541ef
Mostly for historical reasons, q->blk_trace is assigned through xchg()
and cmpxchg() atomic operations. Although this is correct, sparse
complains about this because it violates rcu annotations since commit
c780e86dd4 ("blktrace: Protect q->blk_trace with RCU") which started
to use rcu for accessing q->blk_trace. Furthermore there's no real need
for atomic operations anymore since all changes to q->blk_trace happen
under q->blk_trace_mutex and since it also makes more sense to check if
q->blk_trace is set with the mutex held earlier.
So let's just replace xchg() with rcu_replace_pointer() and cmpxchg()
with explicit check and rcu_assign_pointer(). This makes the code more
efficient and sparse happy.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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