Re: cciss: warning: right shift count >= width of type

Jesper Juhl
2007-08-12T00:56:52Z

(whoops, forgot to add maintainer to Cc - now added)

On 12/08/07, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been building some randconfig kernels lately and I've noticed
> this in a few builds :
>
> drivers/block/cciss.c:2614: warning: right shift count >= width of type
> drivers/block/cciss.c:2615: warning: right shift count >= width of type
> drivers/block/cciss.c:2616: warning: right shift count >= width of type
>
> The code in question is this :
>
> static void do_cciss_request(struct request_queue *q)
> {
> ...
> sector_t start_blk;
> ...
> c->Request.CDB[2]= (start_blk >> 56) & 0xff; //MSB
> c->Request.CDB[3]= (start_blk >> 48) & 0xff;
> c->Request.CDB[4]= (start_blk >> 40) & 0xff;
> ...
> }
>
>
> The problem stems from these lines in include/linux/types.h :
> ...
> #ifdef CONFIG_LBD
> typedef u64 sector_t;
> #else
> typedef unsigned long sector_t;
> #endif
> ...
>
> So on a 32bit arch without CONFIG_LBD, sector_t is going to be 32 bits wide.
> Thus it seems gcc is absolutely right in complaining about those
> 56, 48 & 40 bit shifts, since they are indeed wider than the type
> in the "!CONFIG_LBD on a 32bit arch" case.
>
>
> I must admit that I have no idear what the proper way to deal with
> that is, so I'll just report it so hopefully someone else can fix it.
>
> By the way; I'm building current Linus git tree, head at commit
> ac07860264bd2b18834d3fa3be47032115524cea
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Jesper Juhl
>
>
>

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