Re: [PATCH] ACPI / CPPC: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit

["Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>]

On 02/08/2018 03:49 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:36:17 AM CET Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> Add suffix ULL to constant 500 in order to give the compiler complete
>> information about the proper arithmetic to use. Notice that this
>> constant is used in a context that expects an expression of type
>> u64 (64 bits, unsigned).
>>
>> The expression NUM_RETRIES * cppc_ss->latency at line 578, which at
>> preprocessing time translates to 500 * cppc_ss->latency is currently
>> being evaluated using 32-bit arithmetic.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1382602
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
>> ---
>> Notice that another option is to cast NUM_RETRIES to u64 at line 578,
>> but as there is only one instace in which this macro is being used I
>> think adding the ULL is just enough.
>>
>>   drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
>> index 06ea474..0afbb26 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
>> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpc_desc *, cpc_desc_ptr);
>>    * to PCC commands. Keeping it high enough to cover emulators where
>>    * the processors run painfully slow.
>>    */
>> -#define NUM_RETRIES 500
>> +#define NUM_RETRIES 500ULL
>>   
>>   struct cppc_attr {
>>   	struct attribute attr;
>>
> 
> Applied, thanks!
> 
> 

Thank you, Rafael.

-- 
Gustavo