linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: fix sparse warning in p2m.c

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Message-ID: <54818C40.5020706@citrix.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 2014 10:43:12 +0000
From:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>, <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	<david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: fix sparse warning in p2m.c

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
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