rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments

Changes suggested by review comments from Josh Triplett and
Mathieu Desnoyers.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <20090827220012.GA30525@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 3fe03151a8e6..855fd0d3f174 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1163,6 +1163,8 @@ struct sched_rt_entity {
 #endif
 };
 
+struct rcu_node;
+
 struct task_struct {
         volatile long state;    /* -1 unrunnable, 0 runnable, >0 stopped */
         void *stack;
@@ -1208,7 +1210,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
         int rcu_read_lock_nesting;
         char rcu_read_unlock_special;
-        void *rcu_blocked_node;
+        struct rcu_node *rcu_blocked_node;
         struct list_head rcu_node_entry;
 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU */