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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] virtio_ring.h: do not include <stdint.h> from exported header
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 07:59:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220405075756-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ykqh3mEy5uY8spe8@infradead.org>

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 12:44:30AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 03:19:48PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >  	vr->num = num;
> >  	vr->desc = p;
> >  	vr->avail = (struct vring_avail *)((char *)p + num * sizeof(struct vring_desc));
> > -	vr->used = (void *)(((uintptr_t)&vr->avail->ring[num] + sizeof(__virtio16)
> > +	vr->used = (void *)(((__kernel_uintptr_t)&vr->avail->ring[num] + sizeof(__virtio16)
> >  		+ align-1) & ~(align - 1));
> 
> This really does not look like it should be in a uapi header to start
> with.

It's a way to document a complex structure layout of virtio 0.9. It's
ugly but it's been like this for years. For virtio 1.0 we moved away
from this but a bunch of tools keep using legacy.

-- 
MST


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-05 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-04  6:19 [PATCH 0/8] UAPI: make more exported headers self-contained, and put them into test coverage Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04  6:19 ` [PATCH 1/8] agpgart.h: do not include <stdlib.h> from exported header Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04  7:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-04 17:27   ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-04-04  6:19 ` [PATCH 2/8] kbuild: prevent exported headers from including <stdlib.h>, <stdbool.h> Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04  7:41   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-04  8:01     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-04  8:03     ` Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04 17:34     ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-04-05  1:12       ` Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04  6:19 ` [PATCH 3/8] riscv: add linux/bpf_perf_event.h to UAPI compile-test coverage Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04  7:41   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-04  6:19 ` [PATCH 4/8] mips: add asm/stat.h " Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04  7:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-04  6:19 ` [PATCH 5/8] powerpc: " Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04  7:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-04  6:19 ` [PATCH 6/8] sparc: " Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04  7:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-04  6:19 ` [PATCH 7/8] posix_types.h: add __kernel_uintptr_t to UAPI posix_types.h Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04 11:30   ` kernel test robot
2022-04-04 11:51     ` Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04 12:02       ` Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04 11:51   ` kernel test robot
2022-04-04 13:04   ` kernel test robot
2022-04-04  6:19 ` [PATCH 8/8] virtio_ring.h: do not include <stdint.h> from exported header Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04  7:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-04  7:58     ` Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-04  8:04     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-05  5:35       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-05  6:29         ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-05  7:01           ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-05 11:55             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-04-05 11:57           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-04-05 11:59     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2022-04-05 11:57   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-04-04  7:34 ` [PATCH 0/8] UAPI: make more exported headers self-contained, and put them into test coverage Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-13  8:43   ` Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-13  9:01     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-05-13  9:13       ` Masahiro Yamada

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