From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>,
Philip Li <philip.li@intel.com>, Chris Li <sparse@chrisli.org>,
David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>,
kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next 11/14] bit: Strengthen compile-time tests in GENMASK() and BIT()
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:20:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260123082027.GJ3183987@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aXMtJ_JurQjvN4tU@smile.fi.intel.com>
On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:11:19AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Al Viro's fork just adds 8 commit on top of the upstream sparse repo.
> > Wouldn't it be possible to just merge those?
>
> Ideally yes, but you also should kick the distro's asses to update it, and
> the sparse should bump its version...
>
> > That would be much less confusing.
>
> Seems Al become a sparse maintainer de facto :-)
Huh? What happened to Chris? FWIW, I do have some followups to that series
sitting locally; need to get that finished (mostly for proper __VA_OPT__
handling; that got stalled on the lovely corner cases where the interplay
with side effects of macro expansion is really nasty - gcc and clang do
not agree and gcc is arguably buggy) and posted.
I've done quite a bit of sparse work over the years, but I would rather
prefer somebody else as overall maintainer, TYVM...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-23 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-21 14:57 [PATCH next 00/14] bits: De-bloat expansion of GENMASK() david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 01/14] overflow: Reduce expansion of __type_max() david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 20:59 ` Kees Cook
2026-02-02 16:45 ` Yury Norov
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 02/14] kbuild: Add W=c for additional compile time checks david.laight.linux
2026-02-02 18:33 ` Yury Norov
2026-02-02 20:07 ` David Laight
2026-02-03 4:47 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-02-03 11:14 ` David Laight
2026-02-03 19:41 ` Yury Norov
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 03/14] media: videobuf2-core: Use static_assert() for sanity check david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 04/14] media: atomisp: " david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 05/14] ixgbevf: Use C test for PAGE_SIZE > IXGBE_MAX_DATA_PER_TXD david.laight.linux
2026-01-23 15:44 ` Simon Horman
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 06/14] asm-generic: include linux/bits.h not vdso/bits.h david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 07/14] x86/tlb: " david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 08/14] bits: simplify GENMASK_TYPE() david.laight.linux
2026-02-08 2:36 ` Yury Norov
2026-02-09 9:42 ` David Laight
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 09/14] bits: Change BIT_U8/16() and GENMASK_U8/16() to have unsigned values david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 10/14] bits: Fix assmebler expansions of GENMASK_Uxx() and BIT_Uxx() david.laight.linux
2026-02-08 3:31 ` Yury Norov
2026-02-08 11:42 ` David Laight
2026-02-08 21:20 ` Yury Norov
2026-02-08 22:27 ` David Laight
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 11/14] bit: Strengthen compile-time tests in GENMASK() and BIT() david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 18:43 ` Vincent Mailhol
2026-01-21 19:14 ` David Laight
2026-01-22 1:11 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-22 10:25 ` David Laight
2026-01-22 20:10 ` David Laight
2026-01-22 4:41 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-22 10:33 ` David Laight
2026-01-22 14:26 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-22 14:55 ` David Laight
2026-01-23 1:25 ` Philip Li
2026-01-23 8:01 ` Vincent Mailhol
2026-01-23 8:11 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-23 8:20 ` Al Viro [this message]
2026-01-23 8:24 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-23 8:32 ` Vincent Mailhol
2026-01-23 8:46 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-23 1:24 ` Philip Li
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 12/14] bits: move the defitions of BIT() and BIT_ULL() back to linux/bits.h david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 15:17 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2026-01-21 19:24 ` David Laight
2026-01-22 7:39 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2026-01-22 0:50 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-22 1:23 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-22 10:30 ` David Laight
2026-02-07 22:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-08 4:23 ` Yury Norov
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 13/14] test_bits: Change all the tests to be compile-time tests david.laight.linux
2026-02-08 4:37 ` Yury Norov
2026-02-08 11:32 ` David Laight
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 14/14] test_bits: include some invalid input tests for GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK() david.laight.linux
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