Re: [PATCH] locking/pvqspinlock: Correct the type of "old" variable in pv_kick_node()

[Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>]

On 7/21/24 12:45, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> "enum vcpu_state" is not compatible with "u8" type for all targets,
> resulting in:
>
> error: initialization of 'u8 *' {aka 'unsigned char *'} from incompatible pointer type 'enum vcpu_state *'
>
> for LoongArch. Correct the type of "old" variable to "u8".
>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Fixes: fea0e1820b51 ("locking/pvqspinlock: Use try_cmpxchg() in qspinlock_paravirt.h")
> Reported-by: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240719024010.3296488-1-maobibo@loongson.cn/
> ---
>   kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
> index f5a36e67b593..ac2e22502741 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static void pv_wait_node(struct mcs_spinlock *node, struct mcs_spinlock *prev)
>   static void pv_kick_node(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
>   {
>   	struct pv_node *pn = (struct pv_node *)node;
> -	enum vcpu_state old = vcpu_halted;
> +	u8 old = vcpu_halted;
>   	/*
>   	 * If the vCPU is indeed halted, advance its state to match that of
>   	 * pv_wait_node(). If OTOH this fails, the vCPU was running and will
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>