From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
To: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] alpha: Define pgprot_modify to silence tautological comparison warnings
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 11:01:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260403150128.488513-1-mattst88@gmail.com> (raw)
Alpha's pgprot_noncached, pgprot_writecombine, and pgprot_device are
all identity macros, so the generic pgprot_modify() produces
tautological self-comparisons that GCC warns about:
include/linux/pgtable.h:1701:25: warning: self-comparison always
evaluates to true [-Wtautological-compare]
Since all caching attributes are no-ops on Alpha, define
pgprot_modify() to simply return newprot.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
---
arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git ./arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h ./arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h
index e786f630de5c..849abe2a1f98 100644
--- ./arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ ./arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -126,6 +126,17 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
*/
#define pgprot_noncached(prot) (prot)
+/*
+ * All caching attribute macros are identity on Alpha, so the generic
+ * pgprot_modify() degenerates to tautological self-comparisons.
+ * Override it to just return newprot directly.
+ */
+#define pgprot_modify pgprot_modify
+static inline pgprot_t pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, pgprot_t newprot)
+{
+ return newprot;
+}
+
/*
* ZERO_PAGE is a global shared page that is always zero: used
* for zero-mapped memory areas etc..
--
2.52.0
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