Re: [PATCH v12 1/9] iomap: Fix sparse endian check warnings

Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-03-18T16:13:27Z

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 09:48:44AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> Warnings of the form:
>
> lib/iomap.c:84:9: warning: cast to restricted __be16
>
> Are found when running sparse checker with:
>
> make C=2 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__
>
> This patch casts them with __force to suppress the warnings.

Hi,

it looks correct but if you should explain why the warning
is not a valid one. Once done, you can then explain what problem
you have fixed instead of saying you suppressed a warning.

> Also, it looks like the wrong conversion function was used in

I would suggest to split the patch in two since it does two
different things which should have their own explanation.

> diff --git a/lib/iomap.c b/lib/iomap.c
> index 541d926da95e..a05d9fa21794 100644
> --- a/lib/iomap.c
> +++ b/lib/iomap.c
> @@ -106,8 +106,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioread32be);
> #endif
>
> #ifndef mmio_write16be
> -#define mmio_write16be(val,port) __raw_writew(be16_to_cpu(val),port)
> -#define mmio_write32be(val,port) __raw_writel(be32_to_cpu(val),port)
> +#define mmio_write16be(val, port) \
> + __raw_writew((u16 __force)cpu_to_be16(val), port)
> +#define mmio_write32be(val, port) \
> + __raw_writel((u32 __force)cpu_to_be32(val), port)
> #endif

I think that in this sort of replacement, it's better to not split
the lines (even if larger than 80, that's it).

-- Luc Van Oostenryck