[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "KVM: ARM/arm64: fix broken __percpu annotation" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed May 20 12:30:16 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    KVM: ARM/arm64: fix broken __percpu annotation

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 86a36d66372161296d1f2812ff9ac6910cf56d00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:13:21 +0100
Subject: KVM: ARM/arm64: fix broken __percpu annotation

commit 4000be423cb01a8d09de878bb8184511c49d4238 upstream.

Running sparse results in a bunch of noisy address space mismatches
thanks to the broken __percpu annotation on kvm_get_running_vcpus.

This function returns a pcpu pointer to a pointer, not a pointer to a
pcpu pointer. This patch fixes the annotation, which kills the warnings
from sparse.

Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index d7424ef80354..726bbb42ed31 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu(void)
 /**
  * kvm_arm_get_running_vcpus - get the per-CPU array of currently running vcpus.
  */
-struct kvm_vcpu __percpu **kvm_get_running_vcpus(void)
+struct kvm_vcpu * __percpu *kvm_get_running_vcpus(void)
 {
 	return &kvm_arm_running_vcpu;
 }
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index de90385e7379..fb6075dfac5b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static inline int kvm_test_age_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva)
 }

 struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu(void);
-struct kvm_vcpu __percpu **kvm_get_running_vcpus(void);
+struct kvm_vcpu * __percpu *kvm_get_running_vcpus(void);

 u64 kvm_call_hyp(void *hypfn, ...);





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