linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: make table sentinal macros unsigned to match use

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Message-ID: <20140711220630.GA5697@oc3347516403.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:06:30 -0500
From:	Brian W Hart <hartb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	SH-Linux <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@...aphore.gr>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: make table sentinal macros unsigned to match use

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:25:20AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 28 June 2014 02:39, Brian W Hart <hartb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Commit 5eeaf1f18973 (cpufreq: Fix build error on some platforms that
> > use cpufreq_for_each_*) moved function cpufreq_next_valid() to a public
> > header.  Warnings are now generated when objects including that header
> > are built with -Wsign-compare (as an out-of-tree module might be):
> >
> > .../include/linux/cpufreq.h: In function ‘cpufreq_next_valid’:
> > .../include/linux/cpufreq.h:519:27: warning: comparison between signed
> > and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]
> >   while ((*pos)->frequency != CPUFREQ_TABLE_END)
> >                            ^
> > .../include/linux/cpufreq.h:520:25: warning: comparison between signed
> > and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]
> >    if ((*pos)->frequency != CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID)
> >                          ^
> >
> > Constants CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID and CPUFREQ_TABLE_END are signed, but
> > are used with unsigned member 'frequency' of cpufreq_frequency_table.
> > Update the macro definitions to be explicitly unsigned to match their
> > use.
> >
> > This also corrects potentially wrong behavior of clk_rate_table_iter()
> > if unsigned long is wider than usigned int.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brian W Hart <hartb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > These macros are fairly broadly used in the kernel so I was bit leery
> > of changing them, but after inspection I think it's fine.  I found 102
> > uses of the macros, of which:
> >
> > 99 are uses with cpufreq_frequency_table.frequency (95) or with local
> >    variables of the same type as frequency (4).  These should be just
> >    fine with this change--we're just making explicit a conversion that
> >    was previously implicit.
> >
> >  2 are uses with a local variable of different type (unsigned long) than
> >    'frequency' (in drivers/sh/clk/core.c).  One of these uses is safe;
> >    the other (in clk_rate_table_iter()) is broken if unsigned long
> >    is wider than unsigned int.  As a side-effect, this patch corrects
> >    the potential misbehavior there.
> >
> >  1 is a use in macro cpufreq_for_each_entry() with what _should_ be the
> >    frequency member of a cpufreq_frequency_table, provided the caller it
> >    well-behaved.  There are 18 callers of this macro; all are well-behaved.
> >    So these should also be safe.
> 
> I would have moved some of it to logs, they look good.
> 
> >  include/linux/cpufreq.h |    4 ++--
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
> > index ec4112d..8f8ae95 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
> > @@ -482,8 +482,8 @@ extern struct cpufreq_governor cpufreq_gov_conservative;
> >   *********************************************************************/
> >
> >  /* Special Values of .frequency field */
> > -#define CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID  ~0
> > -#define CPUFREQ_TABLE_END      ~1
> > +#define CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID  ~0u
> > +#define CPUFREQ_TABLE_END      ~1u
> >  /* Special Values of .flags field */
> >  #define CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ     (1 << 0)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>

I haven't seen this appear in the linux-pm tree yet. Is there anything
further needed on my part--aside from patience?

Thank you,
brian

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