Re: drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c:276:15: sparse: sparse: cast to restricted __be32

From: Orlando Chamberlain
Date: Tue May 16 2023 - 07:31:34 EST


Hi,

> On 16 May 2023, at 8:27 pm, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> On 5/16/23 12:16, kernel test robot wrote:
>> tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
>> head: f1fcbaa18b28dec10281551dfe6ed3a3ed80e3d6
>> commit: 0c18184de990e63f708b090bcb9fc6c0fbc427cd platform/x86: apple-gmux: support MMIO gmux on T2 Macs
>> date: 9 weeks ago
>> config: i386-randconfig-s001-20230515
>> compiler: gcc-11 (Debian 11.3.0-12) 11.3.0
>> reproduce:
>> # apt-get install sparse
>> # sparse version: v0.6.4-39-gce1a6720-dirty
>> # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0c18184de990e63f708b090bcb9fc6c0fbc427cd
>> git remote add linus https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
>> git fetch --no-tags linus master
>> git checkout 0c18184de990e63f708b090bcb9fc6c0fbc427cd
>> # save the config file
>> mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config
>> make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=i386 olddefconfig
>> make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=i386 SHELL=/bin/bash drivers/platform/x86/
>>
>> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag where applicable
>> | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> | Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305161712.5l3f4iI4-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> <snip>
>
>> vim +276 drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c
>>
>> 265
>> 266 static u32 gmux_mmio_read32(struct apple_gmux_data *gmux_data, int port)
>> 267 {
>> 268 u32 val;
>> 269
>> 270 mutex_lock(&gmux_data->index_lock);
>> 271 gmux_mmio_wait(gmux_data);
>> 272 iowrite8((port & 0xff), gmux_data->iomem_base + GMUX_MMIO_PORT_SELECT);
>> 273 iowrite8(GMUX_MMIO_READ | sizeof(val),
>> 274 gmux_data->iomem_base + GMUX_MMIO_COMMAND_SEND);
>> 275 gmux_mmio_wait(gmux_data);
>>> 276 val = be32_to_cpu(ioread32(gmux_data->iomem_base));
>
> Ok, so sparse does not like this line.
>
>> 277 mutex_unlock(&gmux_data->index_lock);
>> 278
>> 279 return val;
>> 280 }
>> 281
>> 282 static void gmux_mmio_write32(struct apple_gmux_data *gmux_data, int port,
>> 283 u32 val)
>> 284 {
>> 285 mutex_lock(&gmux_data->index_lock);
>>> 286 iowrite32(cpu_to_be32(val), gmux_data->iomem_base);
>
> Nor this line. But this is what we want (convert to/from be32 to CPU
> when reading/writing).
>
> There is iowrite32be() but that always unconditionally swabs
> the byte order independent of the CPU byte-order.
>
> Now this is an x86 driver so always swapping is fine, still
> I wonder if there is a better option here then using
> iowrite32be() and ioread32be() ?

Thanks for finding those functions. I can't think of anything better unless there's a simple way to change sparse's rules so that it will be happy with code like this.

Regards,
Orlando

>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
>
>
>
>> 287 iowrite8(port & 0xff, gmux_data->iomem_base + GMUX_MMIO_PORT_SELECT);
>> 288 iowrite8(GMUX_MMIO_WRITE | sizeof(val),
>> 289 gmux_data->iomem_base + GMUX_MMIO_COMMAND_SEND);
>> 290 gmux_mmio_wait(gmux_data);
>> 291 mutex_unlock(&gmux_data->index_lock);
>> 292 }
>> 293
>>
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