linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/21] powerpc: Avoid comparison of unsigned long >= 0 in pfn

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Date:   Sun, 4 Mar 2018 20:46:44 +0100
From:   christophe leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/21] powerpc: Avoid comparison of unsigned long >= 0 in
 pfn_valid



Le 04/03/2018 à 11:55, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
> Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org> writes:
> 
>> Rewrite comparison since all values compared are of type `unsigned long`.
>>
>> Fix a warning (treated as error in W=1):
>>
>>    CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.o
>> In file included from ./include/linux/bug.h:5:0,
>>                   from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:13,
>>                   from ./include/linux/smp.h:13,
>>                   from ./include/linux/kernel_stat.h:5,
>>                   from arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c:35:
>> ./include/linux/dma-mapping.h: In function ‘dma_map_resource’:
>> ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h:129:32: error: comparison of unsigned expression >= 0 is always true [-Werror=type-limits]
>>   #define pfn_valid(pfn)  ((pfn) >= ARCH_PFN_OFFSET && (pfn) < max_mapnr)
>>                                  ^
>> Suggested-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h | 3 ++-
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
>> index 8da5d4c1cab2..19dea64e7ed2 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
>> @@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ extern long long virt_phys_offset;
>>   
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_FLATMEM
>>   #define ARCH_PFN_OFFSET		((unsigned long)(MEMORY_START >> PAGE_SHIFT))
>> -#define pfn_valid(pfn)		((pfn) >= ARCH_PFN_OFFSET && (pfn) < max_mapnr)
>> +#define pfn_valid(pfn) \
>> +		(((pfn) - ARCH_PFN_OFFSET) < (max_mapnr - ARCH_PFN_OFFSET))
> 
> I'm not a big fan of this one, because the original code is *far* more
> obvious as to what it's doing.
> 
> I'm not sure if we can make this one a static inline, or whether that
> would help, but it would be worth investigating.
> 

The following seems to give a good result:

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h 
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
index 8da5d4c1cab2..6f74938483b7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -126,7 +126,15 @@ extern long long virt_phys_offset;

  #ifdef CONFIG_FLATMEM
  #define ARCH_PFN_OFFSET		((unsigned long)(MEMORY_START >> PAGE_SHIFT))
-#define pfn_valid(pfn)		((pfn) >= ARCH_PFN_OFFSET && (pfn) < max_mapnr)
+#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+extern unsigned long max_mapnr;
+static inline bool pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	unsigned long min_pfn = ARCH_PFN_OFFSET;
+
+	return pfn >= min_pfn && pfn < max_mapnr;
+}
+#endif
  #endif

  #define virt_to_pfn(kaddr)	(__pa(kaddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT)


Christophe

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