New sparse warnings from sched.h

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Nov 14 2017 - 15:41:48 EST



commit 799ba82de01e7543f6b2042e1a739f3a20255f23
Author: luca abeni <luca.abeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Sep 7 12:09:31 2017 +0200

sched/deadline: Use C bitfields for the state flags

Ask the compiler to use a single bit for storing true / false values,
instead of wasting the size of a whole int value.
Tested with gcc 5.4.0 on x86_64, and the compiler produces the expected
Assembly (similar to the Assembly code generated when explicitly accessing
the bits with bitmasks, "&" and "|").

produces four warnings from sparse for every file which includes sched.h:

./include/linux/sched.h:476:62: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
./include/linux/sched.h:477:62: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
./include/linux/sched.h:478:62: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
./include/linux/sched.h:479:62: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield

This seems like the trivial fix (untested):


diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index a5dc7c98b0a2..21991d668d35 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -473,10 +473,10 @@ struct sched_dl_entity {
* conditions between the inactive timer handler and the wakeup
* code.
*/
- int dl_throttled : 1;
- int dl_boosted : 1;
- int dl_yielded : 1;
- int dl_non_contending : 1;
+ unsigned int dl_throttled : 1;
+ unsigned int dl_boosted : 1;
+ unsigned int dl_yielded : 1;
+ unsigned int dl_non_contending : 1;

/*
* Bandwidth enforcement timer. Each -deadline task has its