[PATCH v2] x86: xen: remove the use of VLAIS

From: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: ghackmann@google.com, mka@google.com, kees@google.com,
	srhines@google.com, Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] x86: xen: remove the use of VLAIS
Date: Sat,  6 Jan 2018 13:39:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1515274788-24548-1-git-send-email-nick.desaulniers@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2217783-9d18-912f-8c13-996489dbe602@suse.com>

Variable Length Arrays In Structs (VLAIS) is not supported by Clang, and
frowned upon by others.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/23/500

Here, the VLAIS was used because the size of the bitmap returned from
xen_mc_entry() depended on possibly (based on kernel configuration)
runtime sized data. Rather than declaring args as a VLAIS then calling
sizeof on *args, we calculate the appropriate sizeof args manually.
Further, we can get rid of the #ifdef's and rely on num_possible_cpus()
(thanks to a helpful checkpatch warning from an earlier version of this
patch).

Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
* Change mask to us DECLARE_BITMAP instead of pointer, as suggested.
* Update commit message to remove mention of pointer.
* Update sizeof calculation to work with array rather than pointer.

 arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
index 4d62c07..d850762 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
@@ -1325,20 +1325,18 @@ static void xen_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpus,
 {
 	struct {
 		struct mmuext_op op;
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-		DECLARE_BITMAP(mask, num_processors);
-#else
 		DECLARE_BITMAP(mask, NR_CPUS);
-#endif
 	} *args;
 	struct multicall_space mcs;
+	const size_t mc_entry_size = sizeof(args->op) +
+		sizeof(args->mask[0]) * BITS_TO_LONGS(num_possible_cpus());
 
 	trace_xen_mmu_flush_tlb_others(cpus, info->mm, info->start, info->end);
 
 	if (cpumask_empty(cpus))
 		return;		/* nothing to do */
 
-	mcs = xen_mc_entry(sizeof(*args));
+	mcs = xen_mc_entry(mc_entry_size);
 	args = mcs.args;
 	args->op.arg2.vcpumask = to_cpumask(args->mask);
 
-- 
2.7.4
