linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: Explicitly cast divisor to fix Coccinelle warning

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Message-Id: <EAA3D15D-F96D-48AC-B9C0-B2290E1B38AA@toblux.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:01:10 +0100
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...lux.com>
To: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Explicitly cast divisor to fix Coccinelle
 warning

On 20. Mar 2024, at 11:27, Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, strange, trace_do_benchmark() has another do_div(u64, u64). 
> 
>                do {
>                        last_seed = seed;
>                        seed = stddev;
>                        if (!last_seed)
>                                break;
>                        do_div(seed, last_seed);
>                        seed += last_seed;
>                        do_div(seed, 2);
>                } while (i++ < 10 && last_seed != seed);
> 
> Didn't Coccinelle find that?

Coccinelle also finds this one, but please ignore this patch as I just realized
this was already fixed in another patch of mine from February.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20240225164507.232942-2-thorsten.blum@toblux.com/