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Re: [XEN PATCH 7/7] xen/page_alloc: deviate first_valid_mfn for MISRA C Rule 8.4


  • To: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 08:44:05 +0100
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On 02.12.2023 04:03, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2023, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 01.12.2023 03:47, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023, Nicola Vetrini wrote:
>>>> No functional change.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> The preferred way to deviate is to use asmlinkage, but this modification 
>>>> is only
>>>> the consequence of NUMA on ARM (and possibly PPC) being a work in progress.
>>>> As stated in the comment above the textual deviation, first_valid_mfn will
>>>> likely then become static and there would be no need for the comment 
>>>> anymore.
>>>> This works towards having the analysis for this rule clean (i.e. no 
>>>> violations);
>>>> the interest in having a clean rule is that then it could be used to signal
>>>> newly introduced violations by making the analysis job fail.
>>>
>>> Please add this text as part of the commit message. It can be done on
>>> commit.
>>
>> I assume you saw my reply on another of the patches in this series as to
>> asmlinkage use on variables? IOW I think this paragraph would also need
>> adjustment to account for that.
> 
> I was going to ask you about that: reading your reply
> https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=170142048615336 it is not clear to me
> what you are asking or suggesting as next step in regard to asmlinkage
> use on variables.

Either we need a separate attribute, or we need affirmation that calling
convention attributes are ignored (and going to be going forward) for
variables, or we need to resort to SAF-* comments. I'm not sure what's
best (assuming the "affirm" wouldn't really be possible).

Jan



 


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