Re: [PATCH] Put cast inside macro instead of all the callers

[Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:04:01 +0100 Ulrich Eckhardt
<eckhardt@satorlaser.com> wrote:

> I'm by far not a MIPS expert, but I'm puzzled by the code and how it
> uses signed integers for addresses. I just added some comments below,
> but I'm not sure if they are valid. Thank you for any clarification!
> 
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > Since all the callers of the PHYS_TO_XKPHYS macro call with a
> > constant, put the cast to LL inside the macro where it really
> > should be rather than in all the callers.  This makes macros like
> > PHYS_TO_XKSEG_UNCACHED work without gcc whining.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is always a compile-time constant so that you
> can adorn it with a LL. However, note that this is not a cast, a cast
> is at runtime.

It is always a constant.

> >  	if (sp >= (long)CKSEG0 && sp < (long)CKSEG2)
> >  		usp = CKSEG1ADDR(sp);
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> > -	else if ((long long)sp >= (long long)PHYS_TO_XKPHYS(0LL,
> > 0) &&
> > -		 (long long)sp < (long long)PHYS_TO_XKPHYS(8LL, 0))
> > -		usp = PHYS_TO_XKPHYS((long long)K_CALG_UNCACHED,
> > +	else if ((long long)sp >= (long long)PHYS_TO_XKPHYS(0, 0)
> > &&
> > +		 (long long)sp < (long long)PHYS_TO_XKPHYS(8, 0))
> > +		usp = PHYS_TO_XKPHYS(K_CALG_UNCACHED,
> >  				     XKPHYS_TO_PHYS((long
> > long)sp));
> 
> I'd say this code is broken in way too many aspects:
> 1. A plethora of casts. PHYS_TO_XKPHYS() should return a physical
> address (i.e. 32 or 64 bits unsigned integer) already, so casting its
> result should not be necessary.
> 2. Using a signed integer of undefined size for an address. At least
> use an explicit 64 bit unsigned integer (__u64).
> 3. The use of signed types makes me wonder about intended overflow
> semantics. Just for the record, signed overflow in C causes undefined
> behaviour, no diagnostic required, and recent GCC even assume that no
> overflow occurs as an optimisation!
> 
> >  #define PHYS_TO_XKSEG_CACHED(p)
> > PHYS_TO_XKPHYS(K_CALG_COH_SHAREABLE,(p)) #define
> > XKPHYS_TO_PHYS(p)		((p) & TO_PHYS_MASK) #define
> > PHYS_TO_XKPHYS(cm,a)		(_CONST64_(0x8000000000000000)
> > | \
> > -					 ((cm)<<59) | (a))
> > +					 (_CONST64_(cm)<<59) | (a))
> 
> This macro will always(!!!) generate a negative number, is that
> intended?

Well, it's an address, not a number.  Does that help?  The point of the
macro is to convert physical addresses to a selectable type of virtual
address, of which mips has several.

Cheers,

a