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SubjectRe: [PATCH] xen: avoid type warning in xchg_xen_ulong
On Mon, 29 May 2017, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The improved type-checking version of container_of() triggers a warning for
> xchg_xen_ulong, pointing out that 'xen_ulong_t' is unsigned, but atomic64_t
> contains a signed value:
>
> drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c: In function 'evtchn_2l_handle_events':
> arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:87:21: error: 'pending_words' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]

I don't think this is the warning message you wanted to paste here?
Other than that, the patch is fine.


> This adds a cast to work around the warning
>
> Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
> Fixes: 85323a991d40 ("xen: arm: mandate EABI and use generic atomic operations.")
> Fixes: daa2ac80834d ("kernel.h: handle pointers to arrays better in container_of()")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h
> index 71e473d05fcc..620dc75362e5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ static inline int xen_irqs_disabled(struct pt_regs *regs)
> return raw_irqs_disabled_flags(regs->ARM_cpsr);
> }
>
> -#define xchg_xen_ulong(ptr, val) atomic64_xchg(container_of((ptr), \
> +#define xchg_xen_ulong(ptr, val) atomic64_xchg(container_of((long long*)(ptr),\
> atomic64_t, \
> counter), (val))

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