Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON usage for old gcc

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 11:53:32AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> As reported in the below link, it seems older versions of gcc cannot
> determine that the howmany variable is known for all callers.  Include
> a test so that newer compilers can enforce this sanity check and older
> compilers can still work.  Add __always_inline attribute to give the
> compiler an even better chance to know the inputs.
> 
> Fixes: 4453f360862e ("PCI: Batch BAR sizing operations")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250209154512.GA18688@redhat.com
> Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Mitchell Augustin <mitchell.augustin@canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

Applied to pci/for-linus for v6.14 since this fixes a build issue we
added in v6.14-rc1, thanks, Alex.

> ---
> 
> v2:
>  - Switch to statically_true (David Laight)
>  - Add __always_inline (David Laight)
>  - Included Tested-by reports
> 
>  drivers/pci/probe.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> index b6536ed599c3..246744d8d268 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> @@ -339,13 +339,14 @@ int __pci_read_base(struct pci_dev *dev, enum pci_bar_type type,
>  	return (res->flags & IORESOURCE_MEM_64) ? 1 : 0;
>  }
>  
> -static void pci_read_bases(struct pci_dev *dev, unsigned int howmany, int rom)
> +static __always_inline void pci_read_bases(struct pci_dev *dev,
> +					   unsigned int howmany, int rom)
>  {
>  	u32 rombar, stdbars[PCI_STD_NUM_BARS];
>  	unsigned int pos, reg;
>  	u16 orig_cmd;
>  
> -	BUILD_BUG_ON(howmany > PCI_STD_NUM_BARS);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(statically_true(howmany > PCI_STD_NUM_BARS));
>  
>  	if (dev->non_compliant_bars)
>  		return;
> -- 
> 2.48.1
>