linux-kernel - Re: Build regressions/improvements in v5.18-rc1

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Date:   Tue, 5 Apr 2022 08:47:40 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v5.18-rc1

Hi Dave,

On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:16 AM Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 01:45:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 12:19 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > > > /kisskb/src/fs/xfs/./xfs_trace.h:432:2: note: in expansion of macro 'TP_printk'
> > > >   TP_printk("dev %d:%d daddr 0x%llx bbcount 0x%x hold %d pincount %d "
> > > >   ^
> > > > /kisskb/src/fs/xfs/./xfs_trace.h:440:5: note: in expansion of macro '__print_flags'
> > > >      __print_flags(__entry->flags, "|", XFS_BUF_FLAGS),
> > > >      ^
> > > > /kisskb/src/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h:67:4: note: in expansion of macro 'XBF_UNMAPPED'
> > > >   { XBF_UNMAPPED,  "UNMAPPED" }
> > > >     ^
> > > > /kisskb/src/fs/xfs/./xfs_trace.h:440:40: note: in expansion of macro 'XFS_BUF_FLAGS'
> > > >      __print_flags(__entry->flags, "|", XFS_BUF_FLAGS),
> > > >                                         ^
> > > > /kisskb/src/fs/xfs/./xfs_trace.h: In function 'trace_raw_output_xfs_buf_flags_class':
> > > > /kisskb/src/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.h:46:23: error: initializer element is not constant
> > > >  #define XBF_UNMAPPED  (1 << 31)/* do not map the buffer */
> > > >
> > > > This doesn't make a whole lotta sense to me. It's blown up in a
> > > > tracepoint macro in XFS that was not changed at all in 5.18-rc1, nor
> > > > was any of the surrounding XFS code or contexts.  Perhaps something
> > > > outside XFS changed to cause this on these platforms?
> > >
> > > Upon closer look, all builds showing this issue are using gcc-5...
> > >
> > > > Can you bisect this, please?
> > >
> > > Fortunately I still have gcc-5 installed on an older machine,
> > > and I could reproduce the issue on amd64 with
> > > "make allmodconfig fs/xfs/xfs_trace.o".
> > >
> > > Bisection points to commit e8c07082a810fbb9 ("Kbuild: move to
> > > -std=gnu11").
> > >
> > > [1] gcc version 5.5.0 20171010 (Ubuntu 5.5.0-12ubuntu1
> >
> > Thanks for the report. I've produced it and can see that the problem
> > is assigning
> > the value of "(1 << 31)" to an 'unsigned long' struct member. Since this is
> > a signed integer overflow, the result is technically undefined behavior,
> > which gcc-5 does not accept as an integer constant.
> >
> > The patch below fixes it for me, but I have not checked if there are any
> > other instances. This could also be done using the 'BIT()' macro if the
> > XFS maintainers prefer:
>
> So XFS only uses these flags in unsigned int fields that are
> typed via:
>
> typedef unsigned int xfs_buf_flags_t;
>
> So on the surface, declaring the flag values as ULONG and then writing
> them into a UINT field is not a nice thing to be doing.
>
> I really don't want to change the xfs_buf_flags_t type to an
> unsigned long, because that changes the packing of the first
> cacheline of the struct xfs_buf and the contents of that cacheline
> are performance critical for the lookup fastpath....

Hence just use "1u << n" instead of "1ul << n"?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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