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* [PATCH] compiler.h: Fix sparse check errors
@ 2015-07-07 13:43 Mauro Carvalho Chehab
  2015-07-07 14:56 ` Ross Zwisler
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab @ 2015-07-07 13:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Williams
  Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linux Kernel Mailing List,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Christopher Li, linux-sparse,
	Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, H. Peter Anvin, Ross Zwisler,
	Dan Carpenter

The #define __pmem was put at the wrong place, inside a
__rcu check. The way it is, if CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER is
not defined, it will produce thousands of errors like:

./arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:251:27: error: void declaration
./arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:251:27: error: Expected ; at end of declaration
./arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:251:27: error: got *

making sparse pretty much useless, due to the excess of noise.

So, move the define out of the sparse RCU pointer check.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 7f8ad9593da7..4f85b58b7285 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 # define __rcu		__attribute__((noderef, address_space(4)))
 #else
 # define __rcu
+#endif
 # define __pmem		__attribute__((noderef, address_space(5)))
-#endif
 extern void __chk_user_ptr(const volatile void __user *);
 extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
 #else
-- 
2.4.3


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* Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: Fix sparse check errors
  2015-07-07 13:43 [PATCH] compiler.h: Fix sparse check errors Mauro Carvalho Chehab
@ 2015-07-07 14:56 ` Ross Zwisler
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ross Zwisler @ 2015-07-07 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
  Cc: Dan Williams, Linux Kernel Mailing List, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
	Christopher Li, linux-sparse, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar,
	H. Peter Anvin, Dan Carpenter

On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 10:43 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The #define __pmem was put at the wrong place, inside a
> __rcu check. The way it is, if CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER is
> not defined, it will produce thousands of errors like:
> 
> ./arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:251:27: error: void declaration
> ./arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:251:27: error: Expected ; at end of declaration
> ./arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:251:27: error: got *
> 
> making sparse pretty much useless, due to the excess of noise.
> 
> So, move the define out of the sparse RCU pointer check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> index 7f8ad9593da7..4f85b58b7285 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
>  # define __rcu		__attribute__((noderef, address_space(4)))
>  #else
>  # define __rcu
> +#endif
>  # define __pmem		__attribute__((noderef, address_space(5)))
> -#endif
>  extern void __chk_user_ptr(const volatile void __user *);
>  extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
>  #else

Yep, thank you for the fix.  I think Dan already has a version of this queued
up in his tree for his next pull request:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm.git/commit/?h=libnvdimm-pending&id=31f02455455d405320e2f749696bef4e02903b35



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