Re: [PATCH] virtio_ring: sparse warning fixup

[Jason Wang]

On 2020/7/10 äå6:49, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 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;


Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>