This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xen: avoid type warning in xchg_xen_ulong
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: xen-avoid-type-warning-in-xchg_xen_ulong.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018
From: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:53:10 +0200 Subject: xen: avoid type warning in xchg_xen_ulong
From: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de
[ Upstream commit 9cc91f212111cdcbefa02dcdb7dd443f224bf52c ]
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': drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c:187:1020: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_187' declared with attribute error: pointer type mismatch in container_of()
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 Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini sstabellini@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini sstabellini@kernel.org Acked-by: Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- 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(stru 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))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@arndb.de are
queue-4.4/net-mlx5-avoid-build-warning-for-uniprocessor.patch queue-4.4/xen-avoid-type-warning-in-xchg_xen_ulong.patch