[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Fix flow table sparse RCU annotations.

[Jesse Gross]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:04:55PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:05:56PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> > Some overzealous marking of pointers as __rcu caused sparse to flag
>> > errors that only showed up on the upstream kernel tree.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
>>
>> Actually I've been seeing these for ages in my build tree.  I assumed
>> that you were aware of
>
> ...of them or that they disappeared with a newer kernel, and so I didn't
> bother reporting them.
>
> This eliminates them for me.

I realized after I wrote that that the kernel that I've done most of
my build testing against didn't have CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER turned
on, which is why I wasn't seeing them until now.

Any other warnings that you see?

> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Thanks, I pushed this.