Don''t cast values when other (type safe) mechanisms are available to achieve the same effect. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Index: 2007-05-14/xen/arch/x86/mm.c ==================================================================--- 2007-05-14.orig/xen/arch/x86/mm.c 2007-05-14 08:40:14.000000000 +0200 +++ 2007-05-14/xen/arch/x86/mm.c 2007-05-14 08:40:20.000000000 +0200 @@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ static void pae_flush_pgd( l3tab_ptr = &cache->table[cache->inuse_idx][idx]; _ol3e = l3e_get_intpte(*l3tab_ptr); _nl3e = l3e_get_intpte(nl3e); - _pl3e = cmpxchg((intpte_t *)l3tab_ptr, _ol3e, _nl3e); + _pl3e = cmpxchg(&l3e_get_intpte(*l3tab_ptr), _ol3e, _nl3e); BUG_ON(_pl3e != _ol3e); } @@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ static inline int update_intpte(intpte_t /* Macro that wraps the appropriate type-changes around update_intpte(). * Arguments are: type, ptr, old, new, mfn, vcpu */ #define UPDATE_ENTRY(_t,_p,_o,_n,_m,_v) \ - update_intpte((intpte_t *)(_p), \ + update_intpte(&_t ## e_get_intpte(*(_p)), \ _t ## e_get_intpte(_o), _t ## e_get_intpte(_n), \ (_m), (_v)) @@ -2498,7 +2498,7 @@ static int create_grant_pte_mapping( } ol1e = *(l1_pgentry_t *)va; - if ( !UPDATE_ENTRY(l1, va, ol1e, nl1e, mfn, v) ) + if ( !UPDATE_ENTRY(l1, (l1_pgentry_t *)va, ol1e, nl1e, mfn, v) ) { put_page_type(page); rc = GNTST_general_error; @@ -3278,7 +3278,7 @@ static int ptwr_emulated_update( intpte_t t = old; ol1e = l1e_from_intpte(old); - okay = paging_cmpxchg_guest_entry(v, (intpte_t *) pl1e, + okay = paging_cmpxchg_guest_entry(v, &l1e_get_intpte(*pl1e), &t, val, _mfn(mfn)); okay = (okay && t == old); _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel