Re: [PATCH] branch-check: fix long->int truncation when profiling branches

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 30 May 2018 08:19:22 -0400 (EDT)
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The function __builtin_expect returns long type (see the gcc
> documentation), and so do macros likely and unlikely. Unfortunatelly, when
> CONFIG_PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES is selected, the macros likely and
> unlikely expand to __branch_check__ and __branch_check__ truncates the

Nice catch.

> long type to int. This unintended truncation may cause bugs in various
> kernel code (we found a bug in dm-writecache because of it), so it's

I'm curious to what that bug was.

> better to fix __branch_check__ to return long.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Anyway, I can pull this in my tree and test it.

-- Steve

> 
> ---
>  include/linux/compiler.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/compiler.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/compiler.h	2018-02-26 20:34:17.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/compiler.h	2018-05-30 14:11:53.000000000 +0200
> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_
>  #define unlikely_notrace(x)	__builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
>  
>  #define __branch_check__(x, expect, is_constant) ({			\
> -			int ______r;					\
> +			long ______r;					\
>  			static struct ftrace_likely_data		\
>  				__attribute__((__aligned__(4)))		\
>  				__attribute__((section("_ftrace_annotated_branch"))) \