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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-01-12 11:01:12 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-01-12 11:01:12 +0100
commit1f16f116b01c110db20ab808562c8b8bc3ee3d6e (patch)
tree44db563f64cf5f8d62af8f99a61e2b248c44ea3a /include/xen/interface/io/ring.h
parent03724ac3d48f8f0e3caf1d30fa134f8fd96c94e2 (diff)
parentf9eccf24615672896dc13251410c3f2f33a14f95 (diff)
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Merge branches 'clockevents/4.4-fixes' and 'clockevents/4.5-fixes' of http://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/urgent
Pull in fixes from Daniel Lezcano: - Fix the vt8500 timer leading to a system lock up when dealing with too small delta (Roman Volkov) - Select the CLKSRC_MMIO when the fsl_ftm_timer is enabled with COMPILE_TEST (Daniel Lezcano) - Prevent to compile timers using the 'iomem' API when the architecture has not HAS_IOMEM set (Richard Weinberger)
Diffstat (limited to 'include/xen/interface/io/ring.h')
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diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/ring.h b/include/xen/interface/io/ring.h
index 7d28aff605c7..7dc685b4057d 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/io/ring.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/io/ring.h
@@ -181,6 +181,20 @@ struct __name##_back_ring { \
#define RING_GET_REQUEST(_r, _idx) \
(&((_r)->sring->ring[((_idx) & (RING_SIZE(_r) - 1))].req))
+/*
+ * Get a local copy of a request.
+ *
+ * Use this in preference to RING_GET_REQUEST() so all processing is
+ * done on a local copy that cannot be modified by the other end.
+ *
+ * Note that https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145 may cause this
+ * to be ineffective where _req is a struct which consists of only bitfields.
+ */
+#define RING_COPY_REQUEST(_r, _idx, _req) do { \
+ /* Use volatile to force the copy into _req. */ \
+ *(_req) = *(volatile typeof(_req))RING_GET_REQUEST(_r, _idx); \
+} while (0)
+
#define RING_GET_RESPONSE(_r, _idx) \
(&((_r)->sring->ring[((_idx) & (RING_SIZE(_r) - 1))].rsp))