linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-gfx] include/drm/i915_drm.h:96: possible bad bitmask ?

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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2016 12:59:33 +1000
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To:	David Binderman <linuxdev.baldrick@...il.com>,
	"Vetter, Daniel" <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, dcb314@...mail.com,
	"intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] include/drm/i915_drm.h:96: possible bad bitmask ?

On 8 August 2016 at 19:40, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 10:31:32AM +0100, David Binderman wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> Recent versions of gcc say this:
>>
>> include/drm/i915_drm.h:96:34: warning: result of ‘65535 << 20’
>> requires 37 bits to represent, but ‘int’ only has 32 bits
>> [-Wshift-overflow=]
>>
>> Source code is
>>
>> #define   INTEL_BSM_MASK (0xFFFF << 20)
>>
>> Maybe something like
>>
>> #define   INTEL_BSM_MASK (0xFFFFUL<< 20)
>>
>> might be better.
>
> Yup. Care to bake this into a patch (with s-o-b and everything per
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches) so I can apply it?

Why would you want to apply a clearly incorrect patch :-)

INTEL_BSM_MASK is used in one place, on a 32-bit number

I'm not sure what it needs to be, but a 64-bit number it doesn't.

Dave.