Hi Brian, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on dennis-percpu/for-next] [also build test WARNING on tip/auto-latest linus/master linux/master v5.7-rc5 next-20200515] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Brian-Gerst/x86-Clean-up-percpu-operations/20200517-233137 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu.git for-next config: i386-allmodconfig (attached as .config) reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.1-193-gb8fad4bc-dirty # save the attached .config to linux build tree make C=1 ARCH=i386 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kbuild test robot sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1472:59: sparse: sparse: restricted __be16 degrades to integer include/net/tcp.h:1521:9: sparse: sparse: cast truncates bits from constant value (1d4c0 becomes c0) >> include/net/tcp.h:1521:9: sparse: sparse: cast truncates bits from constant value (1d4c0 becomes d4c0) vim +1521 include/net/tcp.h ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1512 7970ddc8f9ffe1 Eric Dumazet 2015-03-16 1513 bool tcp_oow_rate_limited(struct net *net, const struct sk_buff *skb, 7970ddc8f9ffe1 Eric Dumazet 2015-03-16 1514 int mib_idx, u32 *last_oow_ack_time); 032ee4236954eb Neal Cardwell 2015-02-06 1515 a9c19329eccdb1 Pavel Emelyanov 2008-07-16 1516 static inline void tcp_mib_init(struct net *net) ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1517 { ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1518 /* See RFC 2012 */ 6aef70a851ac77 Eric Dumazet 2016-04-27 1519 TCP_ADD_STATS(net, TCP_MIB_RTOALGORITHM, 1); 6aef70a851ac77 Eric Dumazet 2016-04-27 1520 TCP_ADD_STATS(net, TCP_MIB_RTOMIN, TCP_RTO_MIN*1000/HZ); 6aef70a851ac77 Eric Dumazet 2016-04-27 @1521 TCP_ADD_STATS(net, TCP_MIB_RTOMAX, TCP_RTO_MAX*1000/HZ); 6aef70a851ac77 Eric Dumazet 2016-04-27 1522 TCP_ADD_STATS(net, TCP_MIB_MAXCONN, -1); ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1523 } ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1524 :::::: The code at line 1521 was first introduced by commit :::::: 6aef70a851ac77967992340faaff33f44598f60a net: snmp: kill various STATS_USER() helpers :::::: TO: Eric Dumazet :::::: CC: David S. Miller --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org