From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>, "Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen: Introduce a xmemdup_bytes() helper
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:53:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <842e22cd-fcde-86bf-d671-c14133488e33@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=z9a2OX=YKNz8KapaQdSbBRcGw-gS3H=fKXaNgaah0h+r3ZQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 21/03/2020 22:19, Julien Grall wrote:
>> diff --git a/xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h b/xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h
>> index f515ceee2a..16979a117c 100644
>> --- a/xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h
>> +++ b/xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h
>> @@ -51,6 +51,17 @@
>> #define xmalloc_bytes(_bytes) _xmalloc(_bytes, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
>> #define xzalloc_bytes(_bytes) _xzalloc(_bytes, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
>>
>> +/* Allocate untyped storage and copying an existing instance. */
>> +#define xmemdup_bytes(_src, _nr) \
>> + ({ \
>> + unsigned long nr_ = (_nr); \
>> + void *dst_ = xmalloc_bytes(nr_); \
> The nr_ vs _nr is really confusing to read. Could you re-implement the
> function as a static inline?
I'd really prefer to, but sadly not.
That requires untangling headers sufficiently so we can include
string.h, to be able to use memcpy. I don't have time at the moment to
sort that out.
~Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-26 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-20 21:24 [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] x86/ucode: Cleanup - Part 2/n Andrew Cooper
2020-03-20 21:24 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] x86/ucode/amd: Fix assertion in compare_patch() Andrew Cooper
2020-03-21 16:45 ` Wei Liu
2020-03-20 21:24 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] x86/ucode: Fix error paths in apply_microcode() Andrew Cooper
2020-03-21 16:49 ` Wei Liu
2020-03-23 8:32 ` Jan Beulich
2020-03-20 21:24 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] xen: Drop raw_smp_processor_id() Andrew Cooper
2020-03-21 10:14 ` Julien Grall
2020-03-21 16:50 ` Wei Liu
2020-03-20 21:24 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen: Introduce a xmemdup_bytes() helper Andrew Cooper
2020-03-21 16:51 ` Wei Liu
2020-03-21 22:19 ` Julien Grall
2020-03-23 8:38 ` Jan Beulich
2020-03-26 15:38 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-03-26 15:47 ` Jan Beulich
2020-03-26 14:53 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2020-03-26 19:05 ` Julien Grall
2020-03-23 8:41 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] x86/ucode: Cleanup - Part 2/n Jan Beulich
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