linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dsa: b53: avoid 'maybe-uninitialized' warning

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jun 2016 05:07:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dsa: b53: avoid 'maybe-uninitialized' warning

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:19:13 +0200

> In some configurations, gcc produces a warning for correct code
> in this driver:
 ...
> I have seen the warning before and at the time thought I had fixed
> it with 55e7f6abe131 ("dsa: b53: fix big-endian register access"),
> however it now came back in a different randconfig build that happens
> to have different inlining decisions in the compiler.
> 
> The mistake that gcc makes here is that it thinks the second call to
> readl() might fail because the address 'reg + 4' is not a multiple
> of four despite having knowing that 'reg' itself is a multiple of four.
> 
> By open-coding the two reads without the redundant alignment check,
> we can avoid the warning and produce slightly better object code, but
> get slightly longer source code instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Applied, thanks Arnd.