[PATCH v2] x86: xen: remove the use of VLAIS

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Sat Jan 06 2018 - 16:40:11 EST


Variable Length Arrays In Structs (VLAIS) is not supported by Clang, and
frowned upon by others.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/23/500

Here, the VLAIS was used because the size of the bitmap returned from
xen_mc_entry() depended on possibly (based on kernel configuration)
runtime sized data. Rather than declaring args as a VLAIS then calling
sizeof on *args, we calculate the appropriate sizeof args manually.
Further, we can get rid of the #ifdef's and rely on num_possible_cpus()
(thanks to a helpful checkpatch warning from an earlier version of this
patch).

Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
* Change mask to us DECLARE_BITMAP instead of pointer, as suggested.
* Update commit message to remove mention of pointer.
* Update sizeof calculation to work with array rather than pointer.

arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
index 4d62c07..d850762 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
@@ -1325,20 +1325,18 @@ static void xen_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpus,
{
struct {
struct mmuext_op op;
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- DECLARE_BITMAP(mask, num_processors);
-#else
DECLARE_BITMAP(mask, NR_CPUS);
-#endif
} *args;
struct multicall_space mcs;
+ const size_t mc_entry_size = sizeof(args->op) +
+ sizeof(args->mask[0]) * BITS_TO_LONGS(num_possible_cpus());

trace_xen_mmu_flush_tlb_others(cpus, info->mm, info->start, info->end);

if (cpumask_empty(cpus))
return; /* nothing to do */

- mcs = xen_mc_entry(sizeof(*args));
+ mcs = xen_mc_entry(mc_entry_size);
args = mcs.args;
args->op.arg2.vcpumask = to_cpumask(args->mask);

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2.7.4