Re: [PATCH] [media] zl10353: use div_u64 instead of do_div

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Fri Feb 12 2016 - 11:32:35 EST


Em Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:27:18 +0100
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> I noticed a build error in some randconfig builds in the zl10353 driver:
>
> dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `____ilog2_NaN'
> dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
>
> The problem can be tracked down to the use of -fprofile-arcs (using
> CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL) in combination with CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
> on gcc version 4.9 or higher, when it fails to reliably optimize
> constant expressions.
>
> Using div_u64() instead of do_div() makes the code slightly more
> readable by both humans and by gcc, which gives the compiler enough
> of a break to figure it all out.

I'm not against this patch, but we have 94 occurrences of do_div()
just at the media subsystem. If this is failing here, it would likely
fail with other drivers. So, I guess we should either fix do_div() or
convert all such occurrences to do_div64().

>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.c
> index ef9764a02d4c..160c88710553 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.c
> @@ -135,8 +135,7 @@ static void zl10353_calc_nominal_rate(struct dvb_frontend *fe,
>
> value = (u64)10 * (1 << 23) / 7 * 125;
> value = (bw * value) + adc_clock / 2;
> - do_div(value, adc_clock);
> - *nominal_rate = value;
> + *nominal_rate = div_u64(value, adc_clock);
>
> dprintk("%s: bw %d, adc_clock %d => 0x%x\n",
> __func__, bw, adc_clock, *nominal_rate);
> @@ -163,8 +162,7 @@ static void zl10353_calc_input_freq(struct dvb_frontend *fe,
> if (ife > adc_clock / 2)
> ife = adc_clock - ife;
> }
> - value = (u64)65536 * ife + adc_clock / 2;
> - do_div(value, adc_clock);
> + value = div_u64((u64)65536 * ife + adc_clock / 2, adc_clock);
> *input_freq = -value;
>
> dprintk("%s: if2 %d, ife %d, adc_clock %d => %d / 0x%x\n",