Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH linux] xen: change the type of xen_vcpu_id to uint32_t

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Fri Jul 29 2016 - 04:51:08 EST


David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 28/07/16 17:24, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> We pass xen_vcpu_id mapping information to hypercalls which require
>> uint32_t type so it would be cleaner to have it as uint32_t. The
>> initializer to -1 can be dropped as we always do the mapping before using
>> it and we never check the 'not set' value anyway.
> [...]
>> --- a/include/xen/xen-ops.h
>> +++ b/include/xen/xen-ops.h
>> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
>>
>> DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct vcpu_info *, xen_vcpu);
>>
>> -DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, xen_vcpu_id);
>> +DECLARE_PER_CPU(uint32_t, xen_vcpu_id);
>> static inline int xen_vcpu_nr(int cpu)
>
> Should the return type of this change to uint32_t as well?
>

Yes, missed that, will do v2. Sorry!

>> {
>> return per_cpu(xen_vcpu_id, cpu);
>>

--
Vitaly