[PATCH] virtio_ring: sparse warning fixup

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Fri Jul 10 2020 - 06:49:13 EST


virtio_store_mb was built with split ring in mind so it accepts
__virtio16 arguments. Packed ring uses __le16 values, so sparse
complains. It's just a store with some barriers so let's convert it to
a macro, we don't loose too much type safety by doing that.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/virtio_ring.h | 19 +++++++++----------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_ring.h b/include/linux/virtio_ring.h
index 3dc70adfe5f5..b485b13fa50b 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_ring.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_ring.h
@@ -46,16 +46,15 @@ static inline void virtio_wmb(bool weak_barriers)
dma_wmb();
}

-static inline void virtio_store_mb(bool weak_barriers,
- __virtio16 *p, __virtio16 v)
-{
- if (weak_barriers) {
- virt_store_mb(*p, v);
- } else {
- WRITE_ONCE(*p, v);
- mb();
- }
-}
+#define virtio_store_mb(weak_barriers, p, v) \
+do { \
+ if (weak_barriers) { \
+ virt_store_mb(*p, v); \
+ } else { \
+ WRITE_ONCE(*p, v); \
+ mb(); \
+ } \
+} while (0) \

struct virtio_device;
struct virtqueue;
--
MST