From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: danielfsantos@att.net Subject: [PATCH v8 8/9] compiler.h, bug.h: Prevent double error messages with BUILD_BUG{,_ON} Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 16:54:10 -0600 Message-ID: <1357080851-30938-9-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com> References: <1348874411-28288-1-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com> <1357080851-30938-1-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com> Return-path: Received: from nm8-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([66.94.237.191]:34185 "EHLO nm8-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752529Ab3AAWyd (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2013 17:54:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1357080851-30938-1-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: LKML , Andi Kleen , Andrea Arcangeli , Andrew Morton , Borislav Petkov , Christopher Li , David Daney , David Rientjes , Joe Perches , Josh Triplett , linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Michel Lespinasse , Paul Gortmaker , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt Cc: Daniel Santos Prior to the introduction of __attribute__((error("msg"))) in gcc 4.3, creating compile-time errors required a little trickery. BUILD_BUG{,_ON} uses this attribute when available to generate compile-time errors, but also uses the negative-sized array trick for older compilers, resulting in two error messages in some cases. The reason it's "some" cases is that as of gcc 4.4, the negative-sized array will not create an error in some situations, like inline functions. This patch replaces the negative-sized array code with the new __compiletime_error_fallback() macro which expands to the same thing unless the the error attribute is available, in which case it expands to do{}while(0), resulting in exactly one compile-time error on all versions of gcc. Note that we are not changing the negative-sized array code for the unoptimized version of BUILD_BUG_ON, since it has the potential to catch problems that would be disabled in later versions of gcc were __compiletime_error_fallback used. The reason is that that an unoptimized build can't always remove calls to an error-attributed function call (like we are using) that should effectively become dead code if it were optimized. However, using a negative-sized array with a similar value will not result in an false-positive (error). The only caveat being that it will also fail to catch valid conditions, which we should be expecting in an unoptimized build anyway. Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos --- include/linux/bug.h | 2 +- include/linux/compiler.h | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/bug.h b/include/linux/bug.h index 08d97e9..57c7688 100644 --- a/include/linux/bug.h +++ b/include/linux/bug.h @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct pt_regs; __compiletime_error("BUILD_BUG_ON failed"); \ if (__cond) \ __build_bug_on_failed(); \ - ((void)sizeof(char[1 - 2 * __cond])); \ + __compiletime_error_fallback(__cond); \ } while(0) #endif diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index 4c638be..423bb6b 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -307,7 +307,12 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect); #endif #ifndef __compiletime_error # define __compiletime_error(message) +# define __compiletime_error_fallback(condition) \ + do { ((void)sizeof(char[1 - 2*!!(condition)])); } while (0) +#else +# define __compiletime_error_fallback(condition) do { } while (0) #endif + /* * Prevent the compiler from merging or refetching accesses. The compiler * is also forbidden from reordering successive instances of ACCESS_ONCE(), -- 1.7.8.6