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Date:   Thu, 7 Mar 2019 09:28:32 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        Linux IOMMU <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-mapping: work around clang bug

Hi Arnd,

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:01 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> Clang has a rather annoying behavior of checking for integer
> arithmetic problems in code paths that are discarded by gcc
> before that perfoms the same checks.
>
> For DMA_BIT_MASK(64), this leads to a warning despite the
> result of the macro being completely sensible:
>
> arch/arm/plat-iop/adma.c:146:24: error: shift count >= width of type [-Werror,-Wshift-count-overflow]
>                 .coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(64),
>
> The best workaround I could come up with is to shift the
> value twice, which makes the macro way less readable but
> always has the same result.
>
> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38789
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
>  include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> index 75e60be91e5f..380d3a95d02e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> @@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ struct dma_map_ops {
>  extern const struct dma_map_ops dma_virt_ops;
>  extern const struct dma_map_ops dma_dummy_ops;
>
> -#define DMA_BIT_MASK(n)        (((n) == 64) ? ~0ULL : ((1ULL<<(n))-1))
> +/* double shift to work around https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38789 */
> +#define DMA_BIT_MASK(n)        (((n) == 64) ? ~0ULL : (((1ULL<<((n)-1))-1) << 1))

The second "-1" should be done on the final result, not on the
intermediate value.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
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