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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] lguest host feedback tidyups
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On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 19:47 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 02:07:25PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Most importantly, I now realize that Christoph's incorrect ranting
> > about lgread_u32 et al was in fact a subtle ploy to make me diagnose
> > the real issue: sparse 0.3 complains about casting a __user pointer
> > to/from u32, but not an "unsigned long". They are (currently)
> > equivalent for lguest, but this is a much better solution than __force.
>
> The real fix would be to declare it with u32 __user * as argument and deal
> with callers.

Hi Al.

Arguments come in from the guest in registers. I could use a funky
union in the structure definition, but I don't think we're winning
anything at that point.

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.

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