From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Drop 'const' from argument of vq_present()
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 11:30:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190607060037.eaof3hllyombxlhc@vireshk-i7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190604095915.GW28398@e103592.cambridge.arm.com>
On 04-06-19, 10:59, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:13:19AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > We currently get following compilation warning:
> >
> > arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c: In function 'set_sve_vls':
> > arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c:262:18: warning: passing argument 1 of 'vq_present' from incompatible pointer type
> > arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c:212:13: note: expected 'const u64 (* const)[8]' but argument is of type 'u64 (*)[8]'
> >
> > The argument can't be const, as it is copied at runtime using
> > copy_from_user(). Drop const from the prototype of vq_present().
> >
> > Fixes: 9033bba4b535 ("KVM: arm64/sve: Add pseudo-register for the guest's vector lengths")
> > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> > index 3ae2f82fca46..78f5a4f45e0a 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> > @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static int set_core_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct kvm_one_reg *reg)
> > #define vq_mask(vq) ((u64)1 << ((vq) - SVE_VQ_MIN) % 64)
> >
> > static bool vq_present(
> > - const u64 (*const vqs)[KVM_ARM64_SVE_VLS_WORDS],
> > + u64 (*const vqs)[KVM_ARM64_SVE_VLS_WORDS],
> > unsigned int vq)
> > {
> > return (*vqs)[vq_word(vq)] & vq_mask(vq);
>
> Ack, but maybe this should just be converted to a macro?
I will send a patch with that if that's what you want.
Thanks.
--
viresh
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-04 4:43 [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Drop 'const' from argument of vq_present() Viresh Kumar
2019-06-04 8:30 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-06-04 8:39 ` Viresh Kumar
2019-06-04 8:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-06-04 8:55 ` Viresh Kumar
2019-06-04 9:26 ` Dave Martin
2019-06-04 9:31 ` Viresh Kumar
2019-06-04 9:57 ` Dave Martin
2019-06-04 9:01 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-06-04 9:59 ` Dave Martin
2019-06-07 6:00 ` Viresh Kumar [this message]
2019-06-07 14:42 ` Dave Martin
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