linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the akpm-current tree

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Date:	Sat, 30 Apr 2016 15:52:34 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@...gic.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the akpm-current tree

Hi Josh,

On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:03:42 -0500 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 08:32:19AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 04:45:43PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:  
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > > 
> > > After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> > > allmodconfig) produced this warning:
> > > 
> > > drivers/scsi/ipr.c: In function 'ipr_show_device_id':
> > > drivers/scsi/ipr.c:4462:34: warning: format '%llx' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'long unsigned int' [-Wformat=]
> > >    len = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "0x%llx\n", be64_to_cpu(res->dev_id));
> > >                                   ^
> > > 
> > > Lots and lots like this :-(
> > > 
> > > Probably introduced by commit
> > > 
> > >   eef17fb79096 ("byteswap: try to avoid __builtin_constant_p gcc bug")
> > > 
> > > I guess __builtin_bswap64() has type "unsigned long int" :-(  
> > 
> > Hm, I suppose this is cross-compiled on a powerpc host?
> > 
> > We probably need to add a (__u64) cast to the return value of
> > __builtin_bswap64(), like:
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/swab.h b/include/uapi/linux/swab.h
> > index de56fd5..d737804 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/swab.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/swab.h
> > @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static inline __attribute_const__ __u32 __fswahb32(__u32 val)
> >   * @x: value to byteswap
> >   */
> >  #ifdef __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP64__
> > -#define __swab64(x) __builtin_bswap64((__u64)(x))
> > +#define __swab64(x) (__u64)__builtin_bswap64((__u64)(x))
> >  #else
> >  #define __swab64(x)				\
> >  	(__builtin_constant_p((__u64)(x)) ?	\  
> 
> 
> Never mind about cross-compiling on powerpc, this has nothing to do with
> that.  But the above patch does seem to fix it.

Thanks.  I have added Andrew's tidied up version to linux-next to
replace the revert.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell