Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] vhost: fix build error caused by 64bit print formatting

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 1:41 PM Maxime Coquelin
<maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 8/19/19 10:40 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 6:16 PM David Christensen
> > <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Use of %llx print formatting causes meson build error on Power systems with
> >>>> RHEL 7.6 and gcc 4.8.5.  Replace with PRIx64 macro.
> >>>>
> >>>> +                               (uint64_t)reg_struct.range.start,
> >>>> +                               (uint64_t)reg_struct.range.start +
> >>>> +                               (uint64_t)reg_struct.range.len - 1);
> >>
> >> I didn't need them when compiling on Power but it's the only way I could
> >> get x86 to build without any warning:
> >>
> >> cc -Ilib/lib@@rte_vhost@sta -Ilib -I../lib -Ilib/librte_vhost
> >> -I../lib/librte_vhost -I. -I../ -Iconfig -I../config
> >> -Ilib/librte_eal/common/include -I../lib/librte_eal/common/include
> >> -I../lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/include -Ilib/librte_eal/common
> >> -I../lib/librte_eal/common -Ilib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86
> >> -I../lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86 -Ilib/librte_eal
> >> -I../lib/librte_eal -Ilib/librte_kvargs -I../lib/librte_kvargs
> >> -Ilib/librte_ethdev -I../lib/librte_ethdev -Ilib/librte_net
> >> -I../lib/librte_net -Ilib/librte_mbuf -I../lib/librte_mbuf
> >> -Ilib/librte_mempool -I../lib/librte_mempool -Ilib/librte_ring
> >> -I../lib/librte_ring -Ilib/librte_meter -I../lib/librte_meter
> >> -Ilib/librte_cryptodev -I../lib/librte_cryptodev -Ilib/librte_hash
> >> -I../lib/librte_hash -Ilib/librte_pci -I../lib/librte_pci -pipe
> >> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wall -Winvalid-pch -O3 -include rte_config.h
> >> -Wunused-parameter -Wsign-compare -Wcast-qual -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC
> >> -march=native -fno-strict-aliasing -DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API  -MD -MQ
> >> 'lib/lib@@rte_vhost@sta/librte_vhost_vhost_user.c.o' -MF
> >> 'lib/lib@@rte_vhost@sta/librte_vhost_vhost_user.c.o.d' -o
> >> 'lib/lib@@rte_vhost@sta/librte_vhost_vhost_user.c.o' -c
> >> ../lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
> >> ../lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c: In function ‘vhost_user_set_mem_table’:
> >> ../lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c:1088:4: warning: format ‘%lx’ expects
> >> argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 4 has type ‘__u64’
> >> [-Wformat=]
> >>      RTE_LOG(INFO, VHOST_CONFIG,
> >>      ^
> >> ../lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c:1088:4: warning: format ‘%lx’ expects
> >> argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 5 has type ‘__u64’
> >> [-Wformat=]
> >>
> >> This system was also RHEL 7.6 with gcc 4.8.5-36
> >
> > Ok, I run the same.
> > The catch is that I did not have RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_POSTCOPY enabled in
> > my working environment (using make) while meson enables it as long as
> > userfaultd.h is present.
> >
> > Maxime, Tiwei,
> >
> > Can't we use uintXX_t instead of (what looks to me) kernel types __uXX ?
> >
> >
>
> That actually comes from a kernel header (linux/userfaultfd.h), so I
> would say no.

Sorry, I had forgotten about this patch.
Seems fine to me then.
Maxime, Tiwei?


-- 
David Marchand