Re: infiniband: cxgb4: GCC warnings for 32 bit

[Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>]

On 2/5/2013 10:36 AM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 09:46 -0600, Steve Wise wrote:
>> On 2/5/2013 4:15 AM, Paul Bolle wrote:
>>> And why is 'cookie' __u64? Is struct cpl_fw6_msg_ofld_connection_wr_rpl
>>> used in userspace code? Can't 'cookie' be of type "struct sk_buff *"? Is
>>> there a requirement for it to be 64 bits wide on both 32 bit and 64 bit?
>> In general, these fields are __ types to highlight the fact that they
>> define an interface between the host driver and adapter firmware.
> That's something new for me. Is that a custom for infiniband drivers or
> is it used throughout the tree?

I'm not too sure how standardized this is.  I think its SOP for Chelsio 
drivers. :)

>> These
>> "cookie" fields are opaque to the firmware.  They are passed to firmware
>> in a work request and then reflected back to the host in the reply to
>> the work request.  Given this, I think there are two issues:
>>
>> 1) no swapping is really needed.  The values are opaque to firmware, and
>> thus can stay in host byte order.
>>
>> 2) to remove the warning, we need something like:
>>
>> req->cookie = (unsigned long)skb;
>>
>> and
>>    
>> rpl_skb = (struct sk_buff *)(unsigned long)req->cookie;
> That's is exactly what I came up with to silence these warnings. But I
> didn't dare to submit it because I was too puzzled with the current
> code. Anyhow, should I submit the (trivial) patch to fix this?

Sure.  Thanks.

Steve.