[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 047/129] KVM: ARM/arm64: fix broken __percpu annotation

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri May 22 08:57:12 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

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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