Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Convert _print_param to a macro

["Michal Wajdeczko" <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:01:40 +0200, Jani Nikula  
<jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Oct 2018, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 10:14 AM Nathan Chancellor
>> <natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> When building the kernel with Clang with defconfig and CONFIG_64BIT
>>> disabled, vmlinux fails to link because of the BUILD_BUG in
>>> _print_param.
>>>
>>> ld: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.o: in function `i915_params_dump':
>>> i915_params.c:(.text+0x56): undefined reference to
>>> `__compiletime_assert_191'
>>>
>>> This function is semantically invalid unless the code is first inlined
>>> then constant folded, which doesn't work for Clang because semantic
>>> analysis happens before optimization/inlining. Converting this function
>>> to a macro avoids this problem and allows Clang to properly remove the
>>> BUILD_BUG during optimization.
>>
>> Thanks Nathan for the patch.  To provide more context, Clang does
>> semantic analysis before optimization, where as GCC does these
>> together (IIUC).  So the above link error is from the naked
>> BUILD_BUG().  Clang can't evaluate the __builtin_strcmp's statically
>> until inlining has occurred, but that optimization happens after
>> semantic analysis.  To do the inlining before semantic analysis, we
>> MUST leverage the preprocessor, which runs before the compiler starts
>> doing semantic analysis.  I suspect this code is not valid for GCC
>> unless optimizations are enabled (the kernel only does compile with
>> optimizations turned on).  This change allows us to build this
>> translation unit with Clang.
>>
>> Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
>> (Note: this is the change I suggested, so not sure whether Acked-by or
>> Reviewed-by is more appropriate).
>
> *Sad trombone*
>
> I'd rather see us converting more macros to static inlines than the
> other way round.
>
> I'll let others chime in if they have any better ideas, otherwise I'll
> apply this one.

Option 1: Just drop BUILD_BUG() from _print_param() function.

Option 2: Use aliases instead of real types in param() macros.

Aliases can be same as in linux/moduleparam.h (charp|int|uint|bool)
We can convert aliases back to real types but it will also allow
to construct proper names for dedicated functions - see [1]

Michal

[1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/255928/


>
> BR,
> Jani.
>
>>
>>>
>>> The output of 'objdump -D' is identically before and after this change
>>> for GCC regardless of if CONFIG_64BIT is set and allows Clang to link
>>> the kernel successfully with or without CONFIG_64BIT set.
>>>
>>> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/191
>>> Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c | 29 +++++++++++++----------------
>>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c  
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
>>> index 295e981e4a39..a0f20b9b6f2d 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
>>> @@ -174,22 +174,19 @@ i915_param_named(enable_dpcd_backlight, bool,  
>>> 0600,
>>>  i915_param_named(enable_gvt, bool, 0400,
>>>         "Enable support for Intel GVT-g graphics virtualization host  
>>> support(default:false)");
>>>
>>> -static __always_inline void _print_param(struct drm_printer *p,
>>> -                                        const char *name,
>>> -                                        const char *type,
>>> -                                        const void *x)
>>> -{
>>> -       if (!__builtin_strcmp(type, "bool"))
>>> -               drm_printf(p, "i915.%s=%s\n", name, yesno(*(const bool  
>>> *)x));
>>> -       else if (!__builtin_strcmp(type, "int"))
>>> -               drm_printf(p, "i915.%s=%d\n", name, *(const int *)x);
>>> -       else if (!__builtin_strcmp(type, "unsigned int"))
>>> -               drm_printf(p, "i915.%s=%u\n", name, *(const unsigned  
>>> int *)x);
>>> -       else if (!__builtin_strcmp(type, "char *"))
>>> -               drm_printf(p, "i915.%s=%s\n", name, *(const char **)x);
>>> -       else
>>> -               BUILD_BUG();
>>> -}
>>> +#define _print_param(p, name, type,  
>>> x)                                        \
>>> +do  
>>> {                                                                           
>>> \
>>> +       if (!__builtin_strcmp(type,  
>>> "bool"))                                   \
>>> +               drm_printf(p, "i915.%s=%s\n", name, yesno(*(const bool  
>>> *)x));  \
>>> +       else if (!__builtin_strcmp(type,  
>>> "int"))                               \
>>> +               drm_printf(p, "i915.%s=%d\n", name, *(const int  
>>> *)x);          \
>>> +       else if (!__builtin_strcmp(type, "unsigned  
>>> int"))                      \
>>> +               drm_printf(p, "i915.%s=%u\n", name, *(const unsigned  
>>> int *)x); \
>>> +       else if (!__builtin_strcmp(type, "char  
>>> *"))                            \
>>> +               drm_printf(p, "i915.%s=%s\n", name, *(const char  
>>> **)x);        \
>>> +        
>>> else                                                                    
>>> \
>>> +                
>>> BUILD_BUG();                                                   \
>>> +} while (0)
>>>
>>>  /**
>>>   * i915_params_dump - dump i915 modparams
>>> --
>>> 2.19.0
>>>