Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the mmc tree

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Thu Nov 02 2017 - 11:03:34 EST


On 2 November 2017 at 02:47, Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Ulf,
>>
>> After merging the mmc tree, today's linux-next build (arm
>> multi_v7_defconfig) produced this warning:
>>
>> In file included from include/linux/irqflags.h:14:0,
>> from arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h:27,
>> from include/linux/bitops.h:37,
>> from include/linux/kernel.h:10,
>> from include/asm-generic/bug.h:15,
>> from arch/arm/include/asm/bug.h:59,
>> from include/linux/bug.h:4,
>> from include/linux/thread_info.h:11,
>> from include/asm-generic/current.h:4,
>> from ./arch/arm/include/generated/asm/current.h:1,
>> from include/linux/sched.h:11,
>> from include/linux/blkdev.h:4,
>> from drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c:14:
>> drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c: In function 'dw_mci_set_drto':
>> include/linux/typecheck.h:11:18: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
>> (void)(&__dummy == &__dummy2); \
>> ^
>> include/linux/spinlock.h:221:3: note: in expansion of macro 'typecheck'
>> typecheck(unsigned long, flags); \
>> ^
>> include/linux/spinlock.h:346:2: note: in expansion of macro 'raw_spin_lock_irqsave'
>> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(spinlock_check(lock), flags); \
>> ^
>> drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c:1953:2: note: in expansion of macro 'spin_lock_irqsave'
>> spin_lock_irqsave(&host->irq_lock, irqflags);
>> ^
>>
>> Introduced by commit
>>
>> 80a2a5a7745b ("mmc: dw_mmc: Cleanup the DTO timer like the CTO one")
>
> Yes, the 0-day bot already complained about this. The short answer is
> that Ulf kindly volunteered to manually fix up my patch series where I
> had introduced a variable in the wrong patch. ...but in doing so he
> introduced a small bug.
>
> It should be very easy to fix. Just need to change irqflags from
> "unsigned int" to "unsigned long".

Yes, problem fixed!

Kind regards
Uffe