Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: PPC: e500mc: Enhance tlb invalidation condition on vcpu schedule

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On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 15:02 -0500, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:48 PM
> > To: Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
> > Cc: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linuxppc-
> > dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: PPC: e500mc: Enhance tlb invalidation
> > condition on vcpu schedule
> > 
> > On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 14:42 -0500, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:
> > > > > -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_vcpu *, last_vcpu_on_cpu);
> > > > > +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_vcpu * [KVMPPC_NR_LPIDS],
> > > > last_vcpu_on_cpu);
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, I didn't know you could express types like that.  Is this
> > special
> > > > syntax that only works for typeof?
> > >
> > > Yes, AFAIK.
> > >
> > > > No space after *
> > >
> > > Checkpatch complains about the missing space ;)
> > 
> > Checkpatch is wrong, which isn't surprising given that this is unusual
> > syntax.  We don't normally put a space after * when used to represent a
> > pointer.
> 
> This is not something new. See [PATCH 04/10] percpu: cleanup percpu array
> definitions:
> 
> 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/24/26

I didn't say it was new, just unusual, and checkpatch doesn't recognize
it.  Checkpatch shouldn't be blindly and silently obeyed when it says
something strange.

-Scott


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