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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	<david.vrabel@citrix.com>, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: fix sparse warning in p2m.c
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 10:43:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54818C40.5020706@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417760195-16911-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>

On 05/12/14 06:16, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The patch "Speed up set_phys_to_machine() by using read-only mappings"
> introduced a sparse warning:
> 
> arch/x86/xen/p2m.c:628:13: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1
>                            (different address spaces)
> 
> Avoid the warning.

Thanks.

But can you add some helper functions instead?  Perhaps:

static inline int xen_safe_write_ulong(unsigned long *addr,
    unsigned long val)
{
    //...
}

static inline int xen_safe_read_ulong(unsigned long *addr,
        unsigned long *val)
{
    //...
}

David

      reply	other threads:[~2014-12-05 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-05  6:16 [PATCH] xen: fix sparse warning in p2m.c Juergen Gross
2014-12-05 10:43 ` David Vrabel [this message]

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