linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] locking/arch: Wire up local_try

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Date:   Wed, 17 May 2023 09:41:41 +0200
From:   Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@...il.com>
To:     Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, loongarch@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@...aro.org>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        WANG Xuerui <kernel@...0n.name>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Jun Yi <yijun@...ngson.cn>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] locking/arch: Wire up local_try_cmpxchg

> +static __inline__ bool local_try_cmpxchg(local_t *l, long *old, long new)
> +{
> +       typeof(l->a.counter) *__old = (typeof(l->a.counter) *) old;
> +       return try_cmpxchg_local(&l->a.counter, __old, new);
> +}
> +

This patch then causes following sparse errors:

    ./arch/x86/include/asm/local.h:131:16: warning: symbol '__old'
shadows an earlier one
    ./arch/x86/include/asm/local.h:130:30: originally declared here

This is then visible in all kinds of builds - which makes it hard to
find out actual problems with sparse.