Re: [kbuild-all] drivers/vhost/vhost.c:718:3: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_718' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: __alignof__ *vq->avail > VRING_AVAIL_ALIGN_SIZE

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sun Mar 13 2016 - 11:00:30 EST


On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 08:49:24AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 10:37:07AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > I keep seeing these errors. Any openrisc/gcc/kbuild people
> > interested in looking into this?
>
> Sorry, currently the buildbot is running old gcc 4.5.1 cross compiler
> for openrisc:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/4.5.1/x86_64-gcc-4.5.1-nolibc_or32-linux.tar.xz
>
> I'll blacklist this error for now, until we upgraded to a new gcc
> version that has this issue fixed.
>
> Thanks,
> Fengguang

Keep getting these errors, blacklisting did not seem to work.

> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 07:15:14AM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> > > Hi Michael,
> > >
> > > FYI, the error/warning still remains.
> > >
> > > tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> > > head: 691429e13dfaf5b0994b07cc166db41bd608ee3d
> > > commit: 5d9a07b0de512b77bf28d2401e5fe3351f00a240 vhost: relax used address alignment
> > > date: 1 year, 2 months ago
> > > config: openrisc-allmodconfig (attached as .config)
> > > reproduce:
> > > wget https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
> > > chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
> > > git checkout 5d9a07b0de512b77bf28d2401e5fe3351f00a240
> > > # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> > > make.cross ARCH=openrisc
> > >
> > > All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
> > >
> > > drivers/vhost/vhost.c: In function 'vhost_vring_ioctl':
> > > >> drivers/vhost/vhost.c:718:3: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_718' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: __alignof__ *vq->avail > VRING_AVAIL_ALIGN_SIZE
> > >
> > > vim +/__compiletime_assert_718 +718 drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > >
> > > 712 (u64)(unsigned long)a.avail_user_addr != a.avail_user_addr) {
> > > 713 r = -EFAULT;
> > > 714 break;
> > > 715 }
> > > 716
> > > 717 /* Make sure it's safe to cast pointers to vring types. */
> > > > 718 BUILD_BUG_ON(__alignof__ *vq->avail > VRING_AVAIL_ALIGN_SIZE);
> > > 719 BUILD_BUG_ON(__alignof__ *vq->used > VRING_USED_ALIGN_SIZE);
> > > 720 if ((a.avail_user_addr & (VRING_AVAIL_ALIGN_SIZE - 1)) ||
> > > 721 (a.used_user_addr & (VRING_USED_ALIGN_SIZE - 1)) ||
> > >
> > > ---
> > > 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure Open Source Technology Center
> > > https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all Intel Corporation
> >
> > I still think it's a bug in the openrisc compiler used.
> >
> > struct vring_avail {
> > unsigned short flags;
> > unsigned short idx;
> > };
> >
> > struct vring_avail *x;
> >
> > int main(int argc, char **argv)
> > {
> >
> > footest();
> > if (__alignof__(*x) == 1)
> > foo1();
> > else if (__alignof__(*x) == 2)
> > foo2();
> > else if (__alignof__(*x) == 4)
> > foo4();
> > else if (__alignof__(*x) == 8)
> > foo8();
> > else
> > fooother();
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > when compiled with the openrisc compiler from kernel.org this calls foo4
> > and it really should call foo2, since the openrisc manual says:
> >
> > 16.1.2
> > Aggregates and Unions
> > Aggregates (structures and arrays) and unions assume the alignment of
> > their most
> > strictly aligned element.
> >
> > and alignment for unsigned short is 2.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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