linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Use uintptr_t and offsetof() in Linux kernel builds

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0gGd-62R0uB3z+h96RFuvmOoHFGdDSjiFcJUvRg4BT9zg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:43:02 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bob Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Use uintptr_t and offsetof() in Linux kernel builds

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:45 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 4:55 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
> >
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> >
> > To avoid "performing pointer subtraction with a null pointer has
> > undefined behavior" compiler warnings, use uintptr_t and offsetof()
> > that are always available during Linux kernel builds to define
> > acpi_uintptr_t and the ACPI_TO_INTEGER() and ACPI_OFFSET() macros.
> >
> > Based on earlier proposal from Arnd Bergmann.
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20210927121338.938994-1-arnd@kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
>
> Thanks for the follow-up. I can't easily test this at the moment, but
> it looks correct to
> me. I had a different approach that I had planned to eventually
> submit, but yours
> looks better anyway, so let's go with this.
>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Thank you, I've applied this patch as 5.18 material.

A pull request for the analogous change in the upstream code base has
been submitted and Bob is going to take it AFAICS.