linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc2: hcd_queue: Fix use of floating point literal

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Date:   Thu, 4 Nov 2021 16:33:41 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Minas Harutyunyan <hminas@...opsys.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc2: hcd_queue: Fix use of floating point literal

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 4:29 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 2:59 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > A new commit in LLVM causes an error on the use of 'long double' when
> > '-mno-x87' is used, which the kernel does through an alias,
> > '-mno-80387' (see the LLVM commit below for more details around why it
> > does this).
> >
> >  drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_queue.c:1744:25: error: expression requires  'long double' type support, but target 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' does not support it
> >                          delay = ktime_set(0, DWC2_RETRY_WAIT_DELAY);
> >                                              ^
> >  drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_queue.c:62:34: note: expanded from macro 'DWC2_RETRY_WAIT_DELAY'
> >  #define DWC2_RETRY_WAIT_DELAY (1 * 1E6L)
> >                                  ^
> >  1 error generated.
> >
> > This happens due to the use of a 'long double' literal. The 'E6' part of
> > '1E6L' causes the literal to be a 'double' then the 'L' suffix promotes
> > it to 'long double'.
> >
> > There is no visible reason for a floating point value in this driver, as
> > the value is only used as a parameter to a function that expects an
> > integer type.  Use USEC_PER_SEC, which is the same integer value as
> > '1E6L', to avoid changing functionality but fix the error.
> >
> > Fixes: 6ed30a7d8ec2 ("usb: dwc2: host: use hrtimer for NAK retries")
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1497
> > Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/a8083d42b1c346e21623a1d36d1f0cadd7801d83
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
>
> Thanks for the patch!
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

hmm...should we explicitly #include <vdso/time.h> for this
declaration?  It may work due to transitive includes, but that's
generally considered brittle should those transitive includes change
in the future.

>
> > ---
> >  drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_queue.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_queue.c b/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_queue.c
> > index 89a788326c56..bdf1927e1be1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_queue.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_queue.c
> > @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
> >  #define DWC2_UNRESERVE_DELAY (msecs_to_jiffies(5))
> >
> >  /* If we get a NAK, wait this long before retrying */
> > -#define DWC2_RETRY_WAIT_DELAY (1 * 1E6L)
> > +#define DWC2_RETRY_WAIT_DELAY (1 * USEC_PER_SEC)
> >
> >  /**
> >   * dwc2_periodic_channel_available() - Checks that a channel is available for a
> >
> > base-commit: d4439a1189f93d0ac1eaf0197db8e6b3e197d5c7
> > --
> > 2.34.0.rc0
> >
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers



-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers