Re: [PATCH 26/35] [PATCH 26/36] powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-17T09:44:39Z

On 16/12/2014 23:07, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 26.08.14 20:14, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:30:49PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>> __get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
>>> them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates
>>> the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
>>> based on an offset.
>>>
>>> Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
>>> processors percpu area. __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
>>> writing data or on the right side of an assignment.
>> ...
>>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
>>> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
>>
>> (Please disregard the ones I posted for v1 of the patch series)
>>
>> Applied to percpu/for-3.18-consistent-ops with the fix up patch rolled
>> in. Please let me know if this patch should be routed differently.
>> Note that this patch was to be applied to percpu/for-3.17 but delayed
>> due to build issues caused by cpumask_var_t.
>
> Unfortunately this commit breaks e500v2 builds with KVM enabled:
>
> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c: In function "local_sid_setup_one":
> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c:81:29: error: macro "__this_cpu_write"
> requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c:81:3: error: unknown type name "__this_cpu_write"
> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c:81:47: error: expected "=", ",", ";", "asm" or
> "__attribute__" before ")" token
> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c:82:8: error: request for member "val" in
> something not a structure or union
> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c:83:8: error: request for member "pentry" in
> something not a structure or union
>
> Looking at the offending line of code I'm not surprised:
>
> - __get_cpu_var(pcpu_sids).entry[sid] = entry;
> + __this_cpu_write(pcpu_sids)entry[sid], entry);
>
> This doesn't quite look like valid C to me. The patch below fixes the
> build error for me. Please check whether it's correct and if so apply it
> directly to the tree.

I can also ask Linus to squash it in the merge.

Paolo

>
>
> Alex
>
>
> From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:04:01 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: E500: Compile fix in this_cpu_write
>
> Commit 69111bac42f5 (powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses) introduced compile
> breakage to the e500 target by introducing invalid automatically created C
> syntax.
>
> Fix up the breakage and make the code compile again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c
> index 1609584..e1cb588 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static inline int local_sid_setup_one(struct id *entry)
>
> sid = __this_cpu_inc_return(pcpu_last_used_sid);
> if (sid < NUM_TIDS) {
> - __this_cpu_write(pcpu_sids)entry[sid], entry);
> + __this_cpu_write(pcpu_sids.entry[sid], entry);
> entry->val = sid;
> entry->pentry = this_cpu_ptr(&pcpu_sids.entry[sid]);
> ret = sid;
>