Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] linux/bits.h: fix unsigned less than zero warnings

[Emil Velikov]

Hi Rikard,

On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 23:18, Rikard Falkeborn
<rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When calling the GENMASK and GENMASK_ULL macros with zero lower bit and
> an unsigned unknown high bit, some gcc versions warn due to the
> comparisons of the high and low bit in GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK.
>
> To silence the warnings, only perform the check if both inputs are
> known. This does not trigger any warnings, from the Wtype-limits help:
>
>         Warn if a comparison is always true or always false due to the
>         limited range of the data type, but do not warn for constant
>         expressions.
>
> As an example of the warning, kindly reported by the kbuild test robot:
>
> from drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c:11:
> drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c: In function 'atmel_smc_cs_encode_ncycles':
> include/linux/bits.h:26:28: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits]
> 26 |   __builtin_constant_p((l) > (h)), (l) > (h), 0)))
> |                            ^
> include/linux/build_bug.h:16:62: note: in definition of macro 'BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO'
> 16 | #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); })))
> |                                                              ^
> include/linux/bits.h:39:3: note: in expansion of macro 'GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK'
> 39 |  (GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) + __GENMASK(h, l))
> |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c:49:25: note: in expansion of macro 'GENMASK'
> 49 |  unsigned int lsbmask = GENMASK(msbpos - 1, 0);
> |                         ^~~~~~~
>
> Fixes: 295bcca84916 ("linux/bits.h: add compile time sanity check of GENMASK inputs")
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx>

This version is far better than my approach. Fwiw:

Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Emil