[PATCH v4 04/11] KVM: arm64: nVHE: Use NULL to reset the trace buffer backing pointer
From: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
Date: 2026-09-01 14:03:47
Also in:
kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, lkml
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), kernel virtual machine for arm64 (kvm/arm64), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Marc Zyngier, Oliver Upton, Linus Torvalds
bpages_backing_start is a pointer; resetting it to plain 0 triggers a sparse warning. No functional change intended. Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <redacted> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev> --- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/trace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/trace.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/trace.c
index 65be6c9fb379d..5437ebb6dbd67 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/trace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/trace.c@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static void hyp_trace_buffer_unload_bpage_backing(struct hyp_trace_buffer *trace __release_host_mem(start, size); - trace_buffer->bpages_backing_start = 0; + trace_buffer->bpages_backing_start = NULL; trace_buffer->bpages_backing_size = 0; }
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