linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] riscv: mm: Fix prototype to avoid discarding const

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Message-ID: <5c900e62-2101-4862-93cf-06292deccabf@ghiti.fr>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:48:12 +0100
From: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>
To: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@...ive.com>,
 linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
 Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>,
 Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>, Anup Patel
 <apatel@...tanamicro.com>, Dylan Jhong <dylan@...estech.com>,
 Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
 Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
 Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich@...tacore.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: mm: Fix prototype to avoid discarding const

Hi Samuel,

On 01/03/2024 21:18, Samuel Holland wrote:
> __flush_tlb_range() does not modify the provided cpumask, so its cmask
> parameter can be pointer-to-const. This avoids the unsafe cast of
> cpu_online_mask.
>
> Fixes: 54d7431af73e ("riscv: Add support for BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH")
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@...ive.com>
> ---
>
>   arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c b/arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c
> index 893566e004b7..07d743f87b3f 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c
> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static void __ipi_flush_tlb_range_asid(void *info)
>   	local_flush_tlb_range_asid(d->start, d->size, d->stride, d->asid);
>   }
>   
> -static void __flush_tlb_range(struct cpumask *cmask, unsigned long asid,
> +static void __flush_tlb_range(const struct cpumask *cmask, unsigned long asid,
>   			      unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
>   			      unsigned long stride)
>   {
> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ void flush_tlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
>   
>   void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>   {
> -	__flush_tlb_range((struct cpumask *)cpu_online_mask, FLUSH_TLB_NO_ASID,
> +	__flush_tlb_range(cpu_online_mask, FLUSH_TLB_NO_ASID,
>   			  start, end - start, PAGE_SIZE);
>   }
>   


Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>

Thanks,

Alex