netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 net-next] net/mlx5: Add MLX5_ARRAY_SET64 to fix BUILD_BUG

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Message-Id: <20161013.101338.499759653949678061.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:13:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     saeedm@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tom@...bertland.com, leonro@...lanox.com,
        David.Laight@...lab.com, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net-next] net/mlx5: Add MLX5_ARRAY_SET64 to fix
 BUILD_BUG_ON

From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 04:57:10 +0300

> From: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
> 
> I am hitting this in mlx5:
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c: In function
> reclaim_pages_cmd.clone.0:
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c:346: error: call
> to __compiletime_assert_346 declared with attribute error:
> BUILD_BUG_ON failed: __mlx5_bit_off(manage_pages_out, pas[i]) % 64
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c: In function give_pages:
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c:291: error: call
> to __compiletime_assert_291 declared with attribute error:
> BUILD_BUG_ON failed: __mlx5_bit_off(manage_pages_in, pas[i]) % 64
> 
> Problem is that this is doing a BUILD_BUG_ON on a non-constant
> expression because of trying to take offset of pas[i] in the
> structure.
> 
> Fix is to create MLX5_ARRAY_SET64 that takes an additional argument
> that is the field index to separate between BUILD_BUG_ON on the array
> constant field and the indexed field to assign the value to.
> There are two callers of MLX5_SET64 that are trying to get a variable
> offset, change those to call MLX5_ARRAY_SET64 passing 'pas' and 'i'
> as the arguments to use in the offset check and the indexed value
> assignment.
> 
> Fixes: a533ed5e179cd ("net/mlx5: Pages management commands via mlx5 ifc")
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>

Applied, thanks.