percpu: add __percpu for sparse

This is to make the annotation of percpu variables during the next merge
window less painfull.

Extracted from a patch by Rusty Russell.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 5be3dab4a69547bf6bb378a45d73e553166c5b12..188fcae10a995f3509fe54eb4035e21259359692 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 # define __acquire(x)  __context__(x,1)
 # define __release(x)  __context__(x,-1)
 # define __cond_lock(x,c)      ((c) ? ({ __acquire(x); 1; }) : 0)
+# define __percpu      __attribute__((noderef, address_space(3)))
 extern void __chk_user_ptr(const volatile void __user *);
 extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
 #else
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
 # define __acquire(x) (void)0
 # define __release(x) (void)0
 # define __cond_lock(x,c) (c)
+# define __percpu
 #endif
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__