Re: [PATCH] sched: use unsigned int for one-bit bitfield in sched_dl_entity

[Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>]

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:50:11 +0800
Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch is to fix the 'dubious one-bit signed bitfield' error reported
> by sparse, when using 'make C=2'.
> 
> Fixes: 799ba82de01e ("sched/deadline: Use C bitfields for the state flags")
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>

I think this is very similar to patches already sent by Dan Carpenter
and Matthew Wilcox. As for the previous patches, I think the change is
ok.



				Luca



> ---
>  include/linux/sched.h | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index a5dc7c9..3e35a37 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -473,10 +473,10 @@ struct sched_dl_entity {
>  	 * conditions between the inactive timer handler and the wakeup
>  	 * code.
>  	 */
> -	int				dl_throttled      : 1;
> -	int				dl_boosted        : 1;
> -	int				dl_yielded        : 1;
> -	int				dl_non_contending : 1;
> +	unsigned int			dl_throttled      : 1,
> +					dl_boosted        : 1,
> +					dl_yielded        : 1,
> +					dl_non_contending : 1;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Bandwidth enforcement timer. Each -deadline task has its